Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 1978 · most notably Stephens v. State (1947), Jarrell v. State (1948)
50 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 Hawes v. State · Ford v. State · Smith v. State · Smurr v. State · Yarbrough 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Had the judge instructed the jury in his oral charge or a written charge had been given at the request of the solicitor asserting that defendant was not justified or excused, and an exception had been reserved to the oral charge, or if special charges had been requested by defendant raising the question of his justification or excuse and refused, then undoubtedly the ruling could be reviewed. But here we have a mere nondirection by the judge — -a mere failure or refusal to instruct the jury orally upon a certain conceived phase of the testimony. This is wholly ineffectual to present for revision the question sought to be reviewed. * Hi ^ 93”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.