State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1973
10 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 State Ex Rel. Meininger v. Breuer · Ex parte Dusenberry
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record shows that it was upon defendant’s request that the court assigned him counsel. Having requested the court to assign counsel, it will then be presumed that defendant was without counsel and that he lacked funds to employ them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Kaiser“in all cases of judgment by confession, the court shall assess and declare the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardy
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.