Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
May 1986
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Krulewitch v. United States · 55 Ala. App. 88 - Bass v. State · Smith v. State · 57 Ala. App. 240 - Oatsvall v. State · Commonwealth v. Lawrence
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where two persons voluntarily engage in an act of sodomy, both are guilty.”
1 later decision 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.