Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Smith v. State (1984), Survance v. State (1984)
60 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 Rogers v. Loether · Ruetz v. State · Thompson v. State · Sypniewski v. State · Hardin 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of a mere relationship or association is not sufficient.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) A person conspires to commit a felony when, with intent to commit the felony, he agrees with another person to commit the felony. A conspiracy to commit a felony is a felony of the same class as the underlying felony. However, a conspiracy to commit murder is a Class A felony. "(b) The state must allege and prove that either the person or the person with whom he agreed performed an overt act in furtherance of the agreement." Ind. Code § 85-41-5-2 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Huff v. State · Simmons v. State“"(1) The prohibited conduct of the person was the product of a law-enforcement officer, or his agent, using persuasion or other means likely to cause the person to engage in the conduct; and "(2) The person was not predisposed to commit the offense. "(b) Conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit the offense does not constitute entrapment."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Whalen v. State · Baird 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.