Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. State · Wade v. State · Crumbley v. State · Sprouse v. State · Johnson v. Barnes
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he denial of a petition to correct a sentence on the ground that the original sentence was void is appealable as a matter of right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harper v. State · Chester v. State“`A sentence is void if the court imposes punishment that the law does not allow.' [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he theory of these cases [is] that a sentencing court retains jurisdiction to correct a void sentence at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper 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.