State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2001
3 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 Lewis v. Commonwealth · State v. Capps · Roach v. City of Eugene · People v. Whitman
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A place to which the general public has a right to resort; not necessarily a place devoted solely to the uses of the public, but a place which is in point of fact public rather than private, a place visited by many persons and usually accessible to the neighboring public. People v. Whitman, 178 A.D. 193 , 165 N.Y.S. 148, 149 . Roach v. Eugene, 23 Or. 376 , 31 P. 825 . Any place so situated that what passes there can be seen by any considerable number of persons, if they happen to look. Steph.Cr.L. 115. Also, a place in which the public has an interest as affecting the safety, health, morals, and welfare of the community. A place exposed to the public, and where the public gather together or pass to and for. Lewis v. Commonwealth, 197 Ky. 449 , 247 S.W. 749, 750 . 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGowan
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.