Williams v. Langston’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Penn v. State · Williams v. State · Pickens 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a conviction has been affirmed on appeal, error coram nobis is not available to secure a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence or to raise issues which are properly raised in a petition pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37. ... If a petitioner discovers some ground for relief .... after a judgment is affirmed, he may present that ground in a clemency proceeding. . .We expanded the writ of error coram nobis in Penn to fill a gap in the legal system. Petition for writ of error coram nobis is not available after we review a case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edgemon 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.