State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Brown (1987), State v. Fernandez (1997)
74 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Ross · Texas v. Brown · Sedillo v. United States · Marron v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it appears to the judge that the jury has been unable to agree, the judge may require the jury to continue its deliberations and may give or repeat the instructions provided in subsections (a) and (b). The judge may not require or threaten to require the jury to deliberate for an unreasonable length of time or for unreasonable intervals.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443 , 29 L. Ed. 2d 564 , reh’g denied, 404 U.S. 874 , 30 L. Ed. 2d 120 (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the police may seize without a warrant the instrumentalities, fruits, or evidence of crime which is in “plain view” if three requirements are met. First, the initial intrusion which brings the evidence into plain view must be lawful. Id. at 465, 29 L. Ed. 2d at 582 . Second, the discovery of the incriminating evidence must be inadvertent. Id. at 469 , 29 L. Ed. 2d at 585 . Third, it must be immediately apparent to the police that the items observed constitute evidence of a crime, are contraband, or are otherwise subject to seizure. Id. at 466 , 29 L. Ed. 2d at 583 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the official commentary was not drafted by the General Assembly,”
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.