State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
52 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (§ 112 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · State v. Ivory
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prosecutor does not shift the burden of proof by pointing out a lack of evidence to support a defense or to corroborate a defendant's argument regarding holes in the State's case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[w]here conduct and not merely speech is involved, the United States Supreme Court requires that 'the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the defense creates an inference that the State's evidence is not credible because the State failed to admit a certain piece of evidence, the State may rebut the inference by informing the jury that the defense has the power to introduce evidence.”
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.