State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2023
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Ring v. Arizona · Harris v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts supporting aggravating circumstances shall be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury's verdict on the aggravating factor must be unanimous, and by special interrogatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ryan“does not define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is proscribed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not provide ascertainable standards of guilt to protect against arbitrary enforcement.”
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.