Williams v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2024
15 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 Andres v. United States · State v. Ramseur · State v. Koedatich · State v. Ingenito · State v. Miller
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court in presenting special interrogatories or eliciting special verdicts from a jury must specifically instruct the jury that each juror must determine and decide each question, that a juror is not required to vote consistently on each question and may vote inconsistently on questions, that each juror must consider each question with an open mind, that each juror must determine each question fairly and impartially based on the evidence, and that it is proper to accept the determination of at least five of the jurors on any question when that determination is relevant or essential in deciding another question. [ Williams, supra, 113 N.J. at 633 , 552 A.2d 153 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Was the defendant, Shop-Rite, negligent, which negligence was the proximate cause of [the injuries sustained by the plaintiff]? Yes_ No_ Vote_ 2. Was the plaintiff, Cynthia Henry, negligent, which negligence was the proximate case of her injuries? Yes_ No_ Vote_ 3. What percentage of fault do you attribute to: A. Shop-Rite_ B. Cynthia Henry_ Vote_ [Id at 621, 552 A.2d at 154 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahoney v. Podolnick“[m]ore important than consistency as such is the effective involvement of all jurors in all important issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.