Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f the accused is found guilty of more than one offense arising out of the same criminal episode prosecuted in a single criminal action, sentence for each offense for which the accused has been found guilty shall be pronounced, and those sentences run concurrently.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Newman v. State

2. “Punishment that is increased for a conviction for an offense listed under this section may not run concurrently with punishment for a conviction under any other criminal statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore, Jammie Lee

3. “means a criminal statute not listed within § 481.134 . Id. at 678. We concluded that, because all of the appellant's convictions were actually”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore, Jammie Lee