State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 1976
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Hooper · State v. Severns · State v. Stewart · State v. Keehn · State v. Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In prosecutions for homicide it is the duty of the trial court to instruct the jury, not only as to the offense charged but as to all lesser offenses of which the accused might be found guilty under the information and upon the evidence adduced, even though such instructions have not been requested or have been objected to." (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clark
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.