Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1980
18 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 McBee v. State · Holt v. State · Cooper v. State · Dupuy v. State · Thomas v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The most that can be said of the entrapment doctrine in Tennessee is that it is a means to a defense where the method of entrapment serves to eliminate from the State’s case one of the essential elements of the crime sought to be proved. 218 Tenn. at 366 , 403 S.W.2d at 323 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones
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.