Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Dixon v. State (1992), David v. State (1988)
76 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 Henry v. State · Orsini v. State · Brown v. State · Williams v. State · McLemore 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]he question of whether the circumstantial evidence excludes every other reasonable hypothesis is for the fact finder to determine . . . Our responsibility is to determine whether the verdict is supported by substantial evidence, which means whether the jury could have reached its conclusion without having to resort to speculation or conjecture ... On appeal the evidence will be viewed in the light most favorable to the appellee, and the jury verdict will be affirmed if there is sufficient evidence to support it . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson 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.