Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Murphy v. State (1977), Johnson v. State (1978)
5 federal appellate · 71 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Gerstein v. Pugh · Boyd v. United States · Pirtle 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The [United States Supreme] Court noted that persons arrested illegally (or, in our case, detained illegally) may decide to confess, as an act of free will unaffected by the initial illegality. And, the determination, whether the confession is the product of free will under Wong Sun [v. United States ] [ (1963) 371 U.S. 471 , 83 S.Ct. 407 , 9 L.Ed.2d 441 ], is dependent entirely on the facts of the particular cause. However, the Court went on to suggest four relevant factors: (1) whether the individual was informed of his rights as required by Miranda, (2) the temporal proximity of the arrest and the confession, (8) the presence of intervening circumstances, and (4) 'particularly, the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.! ..."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the judge should make a record of the arguments and his reason for permitting guards beyond those customar ily employed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Timmons v. State · Parker v. State“sufficiently an act of [a] free will to purge the primary taint [of the illegal arrest or detention].”
2 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.