State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Leitner (2002), Phelps v. Physicians Insurance (2009)
2 federal appellate · 81 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 Santobello v. New York · Mabry v. Johnson · 131 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Bangert · United States v. Calabrese · 207 Wis. 2d 258 - 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An actionable breach must not be merely a technical breach; it must be a material and substantial breach.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a guilty plea "rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled." A prosecutor may not render a less than neutral recitation of the plea agreement. "Santobello proscribes not only explicit repudiations of plea agreements, but also 'end-runs around them.'" Thus, the State may not accomplish through indirect means what it promised not to do directly, and it may not covertly convey to the trial court that a more severe sentence is warranted than that recommended.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A material and substantial breach is a violation of the terms of the agreement that defeats the benefit for which the accused bargained.”
8 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.