Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably United States v. Smart (1985), Malone v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Parker v. State · Page v. State · Brandon v. State · Vaughn v. State · McCulley 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[The common scheme or plan] exception requires much more than mere repetition of similar crimes; 'The device used must be so unusual and distinctive as to be like a signature'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hobbs v. State · Williams v. Owens““Defendant contends that the ‘informant’s’ identity was necessary for investigative purposes, with a view toward a potential motion to suppress the identifications. We do not agree. “In this case, the only effect of the information was to prompt the inclusion of Defendant’s photograph in an array. The identifications did not in any way hinge upon the credibility of the informant and Defendant could have gained nothing from knowing his identity. McCulley v. State, (1971) 257 Ind. 135 , 272 N.E.2d 613 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight 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.