State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
12 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Crisantos (Arriagas) (1986), State v. Powell (1980)
12 district · 60 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 Morissette v. United States · James Brown v. State of New Jersey · Remington v. United States · Earl v. Winne · Brown 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`concurrence of an evil-meaning mind with an evil-doing hand.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fair concession to the frailties of man.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Police officers are not volunteers. They are armed and required to act to enforce the law. They may err in their judgment and exceed their authority in the sense that they misjudge the need for extreme measures or their right to resort to them. Yet, where the purpose is to comply with duty, it would be unreasonable to impose the measure of criminal responsibility applicable to the citizen whose involvement does not originate in a legal compulsion to act and who is free to turn away.”
1 later decision 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.