338 So. 2d 672 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 549 So. 2d 351 - State v. Kotwitz (1989), 802 So. 2d 1224 - State v. Deruise (2001)
67 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Alcorta v. Texas · State v. Square
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n weighing the testimony of any witness, you may consider their demeanor on the stand, their interests or want of interest in the outcome of the suit, their means of knowing the facts about which they testified, the consistency or inconsistency of their statements, whether they made statements at other times contrary to those made on the witness stand, and any other circumstances surrounding the giving of their testimony that may help you in determining the weight that should be given to their statements. (Emphasis supplied). If you believe a witness swore falsely to any fact for the purpose of deceiving you, you have the right to reject the entire testimony of that witness, thereby disregarding their testimony completely. You also have the right to accept as true or reject as false any statements of any witness according to the way you are impressed with his or her truthfulness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hepler v. Lin
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.