State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blakemore v. Blakemore · State v. Jenks · Huddleston v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · State v. Maurer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no doubt that A.B.’s [other-acts] testimony coupled with the social worker’s statements unfairly prejudiced Williams. * * * [Because] no physical evidence of sexual abuse was found[,] [t]he case essentially hinged on the credibility of the witnesses. In cases such as these, there is a real risk that a jury will believe that if Williams did it once, he must have done it again. That is the danger cautioned of and protected against by Evid.R. 403 and 404. Therefore, the trial court erred in finding that the probative value of A.B.’s testimony outweighed any prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Williams
How this case has been treated — in progress
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