State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably State v. Kelly (2001), State v. Atkinson (1996)
64 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Delli Paoli v. United States · Draper v. Washington · Kissinger v. Halperin · Mayer v. City of Chicago
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principles governing the admission of potentially inflammatory photographic evidence are clear. ... [W]e adhere to the general rule that photographs which have a reasonable tendency to prove or disprove a material fact in issue or shed some light upon some material inquiry are not rendered inadmissible simply because they may be characterized as gruesome. ... When, however, an initial determination is made by the trial court that such photographs may have the tendency to prejudice or inflame the jury, the admissibility of such evidence is dependent upon the trial court's determination as to whether their value as evidence outweighs their possible prejudicial effect. ... Since the trial court exercises its broad discretion in such circumstances, its determination will not be disturbed on appeal unless a clear abuse of that discretion is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The absence of a portion of the trial transcript does not mandate a new trial. A new trial is required only if `the proceedings cannot be sufficiently reconstructed to allow effective appellate review of claims raised by the defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A potentially inflammatory photograph may be admitted if the court, in its discretion, determines that the probative value of the photograph outweighs the prejudicial effect it might have on the jury.”
1 later decision 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.