State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Barden (2002), State v. Ceballos (2003)
70 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wainwright v. Witt · Darden v. Wainwright · Payne v. Tennessee
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although we may believe that parts of our law are divinely inspired, it is the secular law of North Carolina which is to be applied in our courtrooms. Our trial courts must vigilantly ensure that counsel for the State and for defendant do not distract the jury from their sole and exclusive duty to apply secular law. Nevertheless, particularly in light of the trial court's final instructions directing the jury in the present case to apply the law as given them by the trial court and not by counsel, we do not find the argument complained of here to be so grossly improper as to have required the trial court to intervene ex mero motu. "”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barden · State v. Haselden“it is not improper for a prosecutor to urge the jury to recommend death out of concern for the future dangerousness of the defendant,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Steen · State v. Morgan“if in his or her opinion disclosure is necessary to a proper administration of justice.”
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.