Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2000
15 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 Hollingsworth v. State · McMinn v. Whelan · Jordan v. State · Sharp v. State · Jones 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““../From the high and authoritative position of a judge presiding at a trial before a jury, his influence with them is of vast extent, and he has it in his power by words or actions, or both, to materially prejudice the rights and interests of one or the other of the parties. By words or conduct he may on the one hand support the character or testimony of a witness, or on the other hand may destroy the same, in the estimation of the jury; and thus his personal and official influence is. exerted to the unfair advantage of one of the parties, with a corresponding detriment to the cause of the other . . . ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Judges shall not charge juries with regard to matters of fact, but shall declare the law’, and in jury trials shall reduce their charge or instructions to writing on the request of either party. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunfee 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.