Ex parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1962 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 488 - In Re Bell (1942), In re Allen (1962)
30 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 Ex parte Maier · People v. McKenna · In re Prime · Ex parte Whitaker · Ex parte Ruffin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are nevertheless satisfied that the complaint contains sufficient in substance, when picked out, to constitute an offense under the first clause of the section. . . . The fact that it contains allegations . . . calculated to bring it within another feature of the statute cannot, as suggested, affect the sufficiency of the facts to state an offense. ... It is only necessary that the complaint should state an offense within the jurisdiction of the court trying it, to meet the objection here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the proceeding [habeas corpus] may not be made to subserve the office of a demurrer; and if the facts alleged squint at a substantive statement of the offense, no matter how defectively or inartificially they may be stated, or however confused and beclouded they may be rendered through intermingling them with immaterial or unnecessary averments, the writ will not lie. (Ex parte Whitaker, 43 Ala. 323 ; Matter of Prime, 1 Barb. 340 .)”
1 later decision 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.