State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
258 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Biber (2011), State v. Bowditch (2010)
258 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 · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley · Berger v. United States
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under a de novo review, the court considers the matter anew and freely substitutes its own judgment for that of the lower tribunal.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“II. Standard of Review In reviewing a trial judge’s findings of fact, we are “strictly limited to determining whether the trial judge’s underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge’s ultimate conclusions of law.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]vidence favorable to an accused can be either impeachment evidence or exculpatory evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.