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← 32 SO3D 486 - Williams v. State

Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State · Brown v. State · 682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State · 729 So. 2d 203 - Burns v. State · 784 So. 2d 186 - Austin v. State

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “any testimony of [Tillman] which you find to be uncorroborated by other evidence should be viewed with great caution and suspicion[.]”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Although granting a cautionary instruction regarding the testimony of an accomplice is within the trial judge's discretion, such an instruction is required when the accomplice's testimony is the sole basis for the conviction, and the defendant's guilt is not clearly proven.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he jury is to regard the testimony of co-conspirators with great caution and suspicion.”
    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.