State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 406 So. 2d 1331 - State v. Edwards (1981), 350 So. 2d 615 - State v. Sheppard (1977)
59 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 State v. Square · State v. Hudson · State v. Gatlin · State v. Douglas · State v. O'BRIEN
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The jury in all criminal cases shall be the judges of the law and of the facts on the question of guilt or innocence, having been charged as to the law applicable to the case by the presiding judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The court may excuse a member of the petit jury venire at any time prior to the time he is sworn as a juror to try a particular case."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction”
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.