Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Boykin v. State · Gollihar v. State · Swearingen v. State · State v. Hardy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The three elements of section 37.09(a)(1) include “two different culpable mental states” — knowledge and intent. The statute requires the knowledge of an investigation and the intent to impair a thing’s availability as evidence. As defined by the Texas Penal Code, “[a] person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect ... to circumstances surrounding his conduct when he is aware ... that the circumstances exist.” In contrast, “[a] person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect ... to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to ... cause the result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carnley 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.