State v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably State v. Marshall Norman Hicks (1954), State v. Birckhead (1962)
24 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a less degree of the same crime, or of an attempt to commit the crime so charged, or of an attempt to commit a less degree of the same crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Her conduct was not by any means, that of an outraged woman, and certainly not of a chaste or virtuous woman, but she acted in a perfectly natural and normal way of a lewd and lascivious female.. . . We recite this much of the testimony to show how carefully judges should charge juries in such cases, so that they may subject the testimony to close examination and scrutiny, as the accusation is one very easy to make and very hard for the man to rebut, or overcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryant“. . . (T)o the end that justice may be administered. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryant
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.