State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), State v. Marshall (1991)
184 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here ... the victim's character has no bearing on the substantive issue of guilt or the penalty to be imposed, the prosecution may not comment on the evidence in a manner that serves only to highlight the victim's virtues in order to inflame the jury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] prosecutor's remarks and actions must at all times be consistent with his or her duty to ensure that justice is achieved.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Although the issue of race was not "inextricably bound up with the conduct of the trial," ... the absence of racial overtones does not obviate the need to consider whether a more expansive voir dire should be conducted. See State v. Ramseur, supra, 106 N.J. at 246 , 524 A. 2d 188 . Racial prejudice may be either blatant and easy to detect or subtle and therefore more difficult to discern. A probing voir dire that elicits more than a "yes" or "no" response will aid the trial court in excusing prospective jurors for cause and will assist the defense in exercising its peremptory challenges. When the defendant is a member of a cognizable minority group, a more searching voir dire should be conducted, if requested.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. McDougald · State v. Long
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.