Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Sypniewski v. State (1977), Porter v. State (1979)
55 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 United States v. Ewell · Pollard v. United States · Smith v. United States · Beavers v. Haubert · Hash 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he argument that such an opinion usurps the function of the jury is simply not valid ... for the simple reason that the jury is free to reject the opinion and accept some other view”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not state a fact, but gives an opinion in order to aid the jury or trier of fact(emphasis in original)”
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.