Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
September 2010
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuthrell v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Al-Shabazz v. State · State v. Walls · Alexander v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of requiring registration is to protect the public from those sex offenders who may re-offend and to aid law enforcement in solving sex crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Latimore
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.