State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1989
10 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 Dortch v. Louisiana Central Lumber Co. · City of Shreveport v. Bryson · State v. Williams
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... it is not essential ... that the State prove that such employee had the legal right to issue or refuse to issue a certificate of public necessity and convenience,... it is sufficient that ... his conduct in relation to his position, employment, or duties is intended to be influenced corruptly...".”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Several distinct offenses, or the intent necessary to constitute such offenses, disjunctively enumerated in the 'same law or in the same section of a criminal statute, may be cumulated in the same count, when it appears that they are connected with the same trans-. action and constitute but one act, but in that event they must be charged conjunctively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Towns
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.