State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably State v. Blankenship (1992), State v. Turner (1981)
54 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 Block v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · White v. Maxcy · State v. Hickam · Atlas National Bank v. John Moran Packing Co. · State ex rel. Welch v. Morrison
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary for an instruction of this nature to require a finding; explicit directions in this regard appear in other instructions. This is all that is required. While it is essential to their correctness that instructions shall be clear, present a harmonious whole and be supported by the evidence, it is not necessary that each should contain a finding or declare the limit of the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hershon“whatever counsel may say you will bear in mind that it is your duty to be governed in your deliberations by the evidence as you understand it and remember it to be and by the law as given by the court in these instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lindsey
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.