State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
45
cited by 45 later decisions
2
states following
February 2015
most recently cited
45 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cole v. State of Arkansas · Dunn v. United States · State v. Daniels · State v. Dragon · Bristol v. Schwolow
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistency with the basic concerns of criminal justice compel us to prohibit, even in sentencing proceedings, the use of mere assertions of criminal activities in any way in aid of determining disposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pernicka · State v. Rice
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.