Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 2012 OK CR 7 - NELOMS v. State (2012), Lott v. State (2004)
10 federal appellate · 58 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 Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic · Wainwright v. Witt
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen perpetrated by an act imminently dangerous to another person and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a probability that the defendant would commit eriminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.