Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Anderson (1994), State v. Lancaster (1993)
91 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 Bell v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Simpson v. United States · 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · Bush v. Florida
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If each offense requires proof of a fact which the other does not, the offenses are not the same and do not merge. However, if only one offense requires proof of a fact which the other does not, the offenses are deemed the same, and separate sentences for each offense are prohibited.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“`doubt or ambiguity as to whether the legislature intended that there be multiple punishments for the same act or transaction[.]'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Other considerations may also be applicable in arriving at a principled decision.... We have also looked to whether the type of act has historically resulted in multiple punishment. The fairness of multiple punishments in a particular situation is obviously important.”
4 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.