People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2009
22 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 Davis v. People · Dodge v. People · Kelley v. People · Deshler Broom Factory v. Kinney · Lidke v. Industrial Commission
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the court shall review the case on the record on appeal and affirm, reverse, remand, or modify the judgment; except that the district court in its discretion, may remand the case for a new trial with such instructions as it may deem necessary, or it may direct that the case be retried de novo before the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bovard v. People · People v. Bovard“recognized the historical differences between the two both procedurally and in substance, so it is incumbent on the courts to make the same differentiation in carrying out their functions under the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bovard v. People“The statute provides a procedure whereby the district court can act as a trial court rather than as a court of review, if it adopts the third alternative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Bovard
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.