Williamson v. Schmid’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2011
5 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 Rayle Electric Membership Corporation v. Cook · Clarke v. Johnson · Park v. Candler · Foster v. Brown · Hawes v. Dinkler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The natural and ordinary meaning of the word "notwithstanding" is "without obstruction from" or "in spite of." [Cit.] Application of this definition to [OCGA § 17-10-16(a)] would mean that it was not intended as the exclusive method for [imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole]. The word "notwithstanding" does not indicate here any repugnancy among the [statutory] provisions. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Velazquez“[Cit.] Application of this definition to [OCGA § 17-10-16(a)] would mean that it was not intended as the exclusive method for [imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole]. The word”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Velazquez
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.