Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2015
21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Mooney v. Holohan · Momon v. State · Golden 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shot the victim with one gun which he placed on his desk, then shot at his desk and chair with a second gun, and pulled the victim’s right hand from under his body and placed the second gun under the victim’s hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“The state urges that the defendant should have done more than he did to protect himself. We find that the state should have done more than it did to protect the defendant's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turpin v. Todd“We do so because we cannot and will not approve corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fugitt 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.