State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 769 - State v. Calle (1995), State v. Flynn (1988)
2 district · 41 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 Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Ball v. United States · Ohio v. Johnson · State v. Evans
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no indication that the legislature intended to authorize multiple punishment for the simultaneous possession of more than one narcotic.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.