Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2006
16 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 Potts v. State · Shouse v. State · Thomas v. State · Mitchell v. State · 155 Ga. App. 447 - Plemons 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . where a state's witness utilizes a report or other writing to refresh the witness' recollection, denying defense counsel the right to examine such writing constitutes a denial of the right of cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Waller v. State“The defendant had no right to examine the witness' report which was used to refresh his memory and which was not in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waller 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.