State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
July 2024
most recently cited
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Reid · United States v. Keller · State v. Brown · Swenson v. State · State v. Woolverton
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If . . . there are two reasonable and sensible interpretations of a criminal statute, the rule of lenity requires the court to interpret its meaning in favor of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Eckert“The legislature typically signals its intent to create an alternative means by 'separating alternatives into distinct subsections of the same statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reynolds“'[a]ny reasonable doubt about the meaning [of a criminal statute] is decided in favor of anyone subjected to the criminal statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Eckert
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.