State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Hill (2009), 89 N.J. Super. 159 - State v. LaDuca (1965)
29 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 State v. MacOn · State v. Kelly · 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes · State v. Ingenito · State v. Coyle
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By failing to explain that a reasonable belief in the need to defend another is required for justification, but that only an honest, though unreasonable, belief is sufficient to negate a purposeful mental state, the judge left the jury to speculate about the applicable law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“improperly import[ ] the reasonableness requirement from the justification defense to the determination of whether [defendant] had the requisite state of mind to be convicted under N.J.S.A. 2C:39-4a [unlawful weapons possession.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not be deprived of the opportunity to assert a mistaken belief that could negate the mental state required to convict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.