Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Earl v. State (1981), Bennett v. State (1988)
52 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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Broad pretrial disclosure would seem to be not only desirable but also necessary. By encouraging guilty pleas, reducing delays during trial, and in general lending more finality to the disposition of criminal cases, disclosure alleviates docket congestion and permits a more economical use of resources.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Honey v. State · Terrell v. State“<d). . . [T]he prosecuting attorney shall, promptly upon discovering the matter, disclose to defense counsel any material or information within his knowledge, possession or control, which tends to negate the guilt of the defendant as to the offense charged or would tend to reduce the punishment therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State
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.