Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Collins v. State (1977), State v. Floyd (1991)
2 district · 20 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 Matter of Babington v. Yellow Taxi Corp. · Reed v. State · Appling v. State · Robinson v. State · Meyers 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ancient ordinance abides as an interpreter of present duty. Still, as in the days of Edward I, the citizenry may be called upon to enforce the justice of the state, not faintly and with lagging steps, but honestly and bravely and with whatever implements and facilities are convenient and at hand . . . . An officer may not pause to parlay about the ownership of a vehicle in the possession of another where there is need of hot pursuit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Surely the responsibilities of a citizen in this republic have not been so diminished and diluted that such a theory can be viewed as having any substance whatever. We cannot see how the possible exposure to danger can be seriously advanced as indicative in involuntary servitude.”
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.