Williams v. Calloway’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Miles v. State (1978), Lámar v. State (1991)
36 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 Thompson v. State · Pope v. State · Hines v. Miniard · Liverpool London Globe Ins. Co. v. Dickinson · Harris 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If a witness who has given testimony in the course of a judicial proceeding between the parties litigant, before a competent tribunal, ... after diligent search is not to be found within the jurisdiction of the court, or if that which is equivalent be shown, that he has left the state permanently, or for such an indefinite time that his return is contingent and uncertain, it is admissible to prove the substance of the testimony he gave formerly."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he party offering [a transcript of the testimony of a witness from a prior judicial proceeding] assumes the burden of showing to the court that he has exercised due diligence to find the witness.”
1 later decision 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.