Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2007
10 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 313 So. 2d 666 - Simkins Industries, Inc. v. Moreira · Simmons v. State · 315 So. 2d 461 - Proffitt v. State · 40 So. 2d 120 - Noeling v. State · Hargrett 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The flight of a person accused of a crime is a circumstance that may be considered by you with all the other testimony and circumstances, and should be given such weight as you consider proper. The rule is when a suspected person in any manner endeavors to escape by flight, concealment, or other indication of a desire to evade prosecution, such may be shown in evidence as one of the, [sic] a series of circumstances from which guilt can be inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the word `shall' as used by the Supreme Court when establishing rules of court procedure means exactly what it usually means and as defined in an accepted dictionary”
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.