State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably State v. Greenway (1991), West v. Illinois (1991)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not fail to disclose relevant information to the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Stewart“mentally liable and responsible on March 12, 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Stewart“reasonable grounds for an examination exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Stewart
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.