State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2010
19 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Commonwealth v. Koczwara · State v. Manning · State v. Boles · State v. Robinson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not reach the issue of whether the trial court's ruling was proper.... It is well established that a judgment need not be reversed merely because inadmissible evidence has been admitted, if permissible evidence to the same effect has also been placed before the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“necessary for effective legal advice and the need for full disclosure in courts, our Supreme Court has adopted a balancing test suggested by Wigmore:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.