Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019
12 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 Choice v. State · Massey v. State · Drewry v. State · Morgan v. State · Adams 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that once the issue of insanity at the time of the commission of the alleged offense is raised by the evidence it is mandatory upon the trial judge to charge the jury under the provisions of Code Ann. § 27-1503 (Rev. 1972) relating to the form of the verdict in case they should find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity. Morgan v. State, 224 Ga. 604 (2) ( 163 SE2d 690 ) (1968).” Williams v. State, 237 Ga. 399, 400 ( 228 SE2d 806 ). The only evidence which might be seen to raise the issue of insanity was the appellant’s testimony that”
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.