Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Maggitt v. Wyrick (1976), 573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith (1990)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Garner v. State · Fine v. State · Palm v. State · Copeland v. State · 193 So. 2d 47 - Cole 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"On the basis of the foregoing authority, we conclude that where a proper predicate is laid by the showing of some overt act by the deceased at or about the time of the slaying that reasonably indicated a need for action by the defendant in self-defense, evidence of prior specific acts of violence by the deceased known to the defendant at the time of the slaying may be admitted for the limited purpose of proving the reasonableness of the defendant's apprehension at the time of the slaying... ."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reason for the required predicate is that without some evidence of an act by the [victim] that would reasonably suggest the need for self-defense, there would be no issue of self-defense to which evidence of the [victim's] violent character could be relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the reasonableness of the defendant's apprehension at the time of the slaying.”
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.