Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
September 2023
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Deal v. Coleman · Wright v. Robinson · Hankla v. Postell · State v. Nankervis · State v. Tiraboschi
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To that end, we must afford the statutory text its plain and ordinary meaning, we must view the statutory text in the context in which it appears, and we must read the statutory text in its most natural and reasonable way, as an ordinary speaker of the English language would.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a specific statute will prevail over a general statute, absent any indication of a contrary legislative intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As in all appeals involving the construction of statutes, our review is conducted under a de novo standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nordahl 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.