Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Prejean v. Blackburn (1989), Isaacs v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 64 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Doyle v. Ohio
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he burden is on the defendant claiming ineffectiveness of counsel to establish (1) his attorney’s representation in specified instances fell below “an objective standard of reasonableness” and (2) there is “a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668, 695-96 (104 SC 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984). [Williams v. State, 258 Ga. 281, 286 (7) ( 368 SE2d 742 ) (1988).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bowley v. State“Evidence in aggravation is not limited to convictions, Devier v. State, 253 Ga. 604 (9) ( 323 SE2d 150 ) (1984), and reliable information tending to show a defendant's general bad character is admissible in aggravation. Fair v. State, 245 Ga. 868, 873 ( 268 SE2d 316 ) (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Scott v. State“accosted the victim in the mall parking lot, forced her to accompany him to a secluded area where he raped and murdered her, then took her jewelry, her pocket book and her automobile, and used her credit cards the next day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Head
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.