Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Cook v. State (1985), 684 So. 2d 93 - Lanier v. State (1996)
32 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 Patty v. State · Pond v. People · Carroll v. State · Houston v. State · Wright v. Commonwealth
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the heat of passion, without malice, by the use of a deadly weapon, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. State
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.