Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984), 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State (1984)
30 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 Lynumn v. Illinois · United States v. Albright · State v. Whitlow · State v. Padilla · 34 Wis. 2d 607 - State Ex Rel. La Follette v. Raskin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A confession will not ordinarily be excluded merely because the person making the confession is mentally weak. Until it is shown that a weak-minded person has been overreached to the end that he has divulged that which he would not have divulged had he not been overreached, his voluntary confession is admissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he will of a person who is of weak intellect may be more easily overcome than that of one who is more intelligent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, where there is a serious question of an accused's sanity or competency to stand trial, that issue should be submitted to a separate jury prior to a trial on the merits of the charges against the accused.”
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.