State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Zamora v. Reinstein (1996), Bilke v. State (2003)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 203 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 Janson v. Christensen · State v. Korzep · State v. Wagstaff · Martin v. Martin · State v. Lyons
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n interpreting the meaning of a statute . . . [w]e look first to the statute's language. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Given the list of crimes, and the language "against a minor," a fair construction of the statute is that it refers to crimes in which a child is the target of the criminal conduct. That is to say, a dangerous crime against a child is a crime against a child qua child.... This supports the meaning that a crime against a child is a crime against a child as a child or in the capacity of a child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sepahi · State v. Sepahi“[w]hen an individual targets a person, he or she generally assumes the risk that the victim will turn out to be within a protected age group.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coghill · State v. Sepahi
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.