State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Jackson (1983)
9 federal appellate · 144 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to prevent an arbitrary or erratic imposition of the death penalty, the State must be allowed to present, by competent relevant evidence, any aspect of the defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that will substantially support the imposition of the death penalty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Ward · State v. Cummings“The murder for which the defendant stands convicted was part of a course of conduct in which the defendant engaged and which included the commission by the defendant of other crimes of violence against another person or persons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pinch · State v. Cummings“if it[ ] and the other crimes of violence are part of a pattern of the same or similar acts which establish that there existed in the mind of the defendant a plan, scheme, system or design involving both the murder and those other crimes of violence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Lee · State v. Cummings
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.