Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Whitwell v. State (1975), Conner v. State (1975)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 State v. Fowler · 26 Cal. 2d 854 - People v. Smith · O'BRIEN v. State · Peek v. State · State v. Brady
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'The offense of receiving or concealing stolen property is codified as T.C.A. § 39-4217. The elements of the offense are specified by the statute to be (1) fraudulently receiving', buying, concealing, or aiding in concealing, (2) goods feloniously taken or stolen from another, or goods obtained by robbery or burglary, (3) knowing such goods to have been so obtained, (4) with intent to deprive the owner thereof.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. State · Daniel 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.