State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Nix v. Williams (1984), State v. Sugar (1985)
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2313
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Faretta v. California · Brown v. Illinois · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Matlock
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the defendant has shown unlawful conduct on the part of the police, the State has the burden to show by a preponderance of the evidence that (1) the police did not act in bad faith for the purpose of hastening discovery of the evidence in question, and (2) that the evidence in question would have been discovered by lawful means.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The first question, then, is whether the police acted in bad faith for the purpose of hastening discovery of the body of Pamela Powers. While there can be no doubt that the method upon which the police embarked in order to gain Williams’s assistance was both subtly coercive and purposeful, and that its purpose was to discover the victim’s body, see 430 U.S. at 393, 399 , 97 S.Ct. at 1236-37,1240 , 51 L.Ed.2d at 433, 437 , we cannot find that it was in bad faith. The issue of the propriety of the police conduct in this case, as noted earlier in this opinion, has caused the closest possible division of views in every appellate court which has considered the question. In light of the legitimate disagreement among individuals well versed in the law of criminal procedure who were given the opportunity for calm deliberation, it cannot be said that the actions of the police were taken in bad faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Nix · Nix v. Williams“a determination of a prospective juror's qualifications must rest upon the entire record of the examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.