Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Isaacs v. State (1989), Pope v. State (1986)
7 federal appellate · 58 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Leary 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relying on this evidence alone, would be permitted to convict the defendant without finding that he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allows but does not require the trier of fact to infer the [ultimate] fact from proof by the prosecutor of the basic [fact].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“the jury as to what conclusions they may draw from the circumstantial evidence presented at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State
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.