State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Stokes (1987)
9 federal appellate · 112 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · New York Times Company v. United States · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · State v. Powell
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Whenever a person, under the standards and procedures set out in this Subchapter, is determined to be an indigent person entitled to counsel, it is the responsibility of the State to provide him with counsel and the other necessary expenses of representation ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In indictments for murder ... it is sufficient in describing murder to allege that the accused person feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder (naming the person killed) ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Avery · State v. Wallace“was committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest,”
2 later decisions 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.