Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1970
14 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 Tucker v. State · Patterson v. State · Rayborn v. State · Barron v. State · Sam v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held many times, and the rule is probably universal in the United States, that the body of the crime charged against a defendant cannot be proven alone by his own confession of guilt” — citing the authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller 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.