Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Alford v. State (1954), Collins v. State (1977)
27 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 Ballew v. United States · Clark v. State · Simpson v. State · Ware v. State · Routt 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And so, too, it is held that one offense cannot be proved by the evidence of the commission of another offense unless the two are so connected as to form a part of one transaction. But, as wholly independent acts, the commission of one offense cannot be shown by evidence of the commission of another. And the introduction of such testimony is also inadmissible because it raises another and different issue which would call for the introduction of other testimony upon such issue and. thus would involve the true and specific issue presented to the jury for its determination, whether the defendant was guilty of -the specific crime charged in the indictment.” Williams v. State, 183 Ark. 870 , 39 S. W. (2d) 295 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson 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.