State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2012
19 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 v. Turnipseed · State v. Vazquez · State v. Montalvo · State v. Mallory · State v. Hardy
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fact may be proved by either direct or circumstantial evidence, or by both. The law does not prefer one form of evidence over the other. Direct evidence is the testimony of a person who perceived the fact through his senses, and testifies to it, or physical evidence of the fact itself. Circumstantial evidence is indirect proof by proving one fact from which an inference of the existence of another fact may reasonably be drawn. Circumstantial evidence may be of the highest and most conclusive kind of proof, but in order to reach a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt on circumstantial evidence alone, all circumstances proved must be consistent with that conclusion and inconsistent with any other rational conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farr“do not unfairly exaggerate the criminality of the defendant's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whittaker
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.