State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Hutchins (1981), State v. Lawson (1984)
58 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 State v. Propst · State v. Gordon · Lewis v. . Watson · State v. Phillips · State v. Cooper
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`give a clear instruction which applies the law to the evidence in such manner as to assist the jury in understanding the case and in reaching a correct verdict.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In that connection, you are instructed, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the State of North Carolina has satisfied you beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant, Mr. Robert Williams, Jr., unlawfully, willfully and feloniously, in a criminal and negligent way and the act was criminally negligent, reckless and careless and showed total disregard for consequences or heedless indifference to the safety and rights of others and such act was done with a deadly weapon, as that term has been described to you, and you are further satisfied from the evidence that the deceased, Mr. Stroud’s death was a natural and probable result of the Defendant’s act, it would be your duty to return a verdict of involuntary manslaughter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbons · State v. Bonds“is bound by the record as certified and can judicially know only what appears of record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.