State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. McCollum (1993), State v. Gaines (1997)
3 federal appellate · 129 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Zant v. Stephens · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]rguments of counsel are left largely to the control and discretion of the trial judge and ... counsel will be granted wide latitude in the argument of hotly contested cases. Counsel is permitted to argue the facts which have been presented, as well as reasonable inferences which can be drawn therefrom.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ur appellate courts may, in the absence of an objection by the defendant, review a prosecutor's argument to determine whether the argument was so grossly improper that the trial court committed reversible error in failing to intervene ex mero motu to correct the error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. French
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.