Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
739 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 747 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Malcolm v. State (1993), Farley v. State (1995)
739 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bacon v. State · Cawthon v. State · Stephens v. State · Cox 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 747 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to protect an accused and to insure him of a fair and impartial trial before an unbiased jury, we have long embraced the fundamental principle [of Georgia rules of evidence] that the general character of an accused is inadmissible unless the accused chooses to put his character in issue.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · State v. Belt“not to raise an improper inference as to the accused's character, but for some appropriate purpose which has been deemed to be an exception to the general rule of inadmissibility”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sufficient connection or similarity between the independent offense or act and the crime charged so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”
4 later decisions 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.