Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Williams v. Duckworth (1984), Underhill v. State (1981)
27 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 Purdy 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crux of the problem is that the trial court judge had no way of knowing how the job of reading the instructions was done or if it was done at all.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. State · Jones 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.