State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2020
17 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 United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · 22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel · State v. Fedorowicz · State v. Tuttle
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies only when 'two statutes are wholly duplicative as to the elements of the crime.' " Id. (citation omitted). "If each statute 'requires proof of some fact or element not required to establish the other,' there is no Shondel problem....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave · State v. Ainsworth“criminal laws must be written so that ... the exact same conduct is not subject to different penalties depending upon which of two statutory sections a prosecutor chooses to charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave · State v. Arave“[T]he Shondel doctrine treats as irrelevant the conduct of a particular defendant; only the content of the statutes matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave · State v. Ainsworth
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.