268 Mich. App. 416 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2024
6 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from 1 person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the clear and unambiguous language of MCL 333.7413(2) does not differentiate or suggest a distinction ... between maximum and minimum sentences[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lowe“The words contained in a statute provide us with the most reliable evidence of the Legislature's intent.”
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.