State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Pierce (1990), State v. Pisio (1994)
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. · State v. Tanton · Foundation Reserve Insurance v. Mullenix · State v. Johnson · State v. Jacobs
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In defining ‘intimate parts,’ the ... statute fists five separate protected areas: the genital area, groin, buttocks, anus and breast. We hold that the legislative intent was to ‘protect the victim from intrusions to each enumerated part. Thus, under the facts of this case, which showed distinctly separate touchings of two of the protected areas, defendant was properly convicted and separately sentenced for [two counts].... Separate punishments are sustainable where evidence shows distinctly separate touchings to the different parts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.