State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Hill (1996)
3 federal appellate · 249 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Harrington v. California
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We emphatically remind trial courts that they should limit definitions where possible, to those definitions provided by the legislature in order to avoid unnecessary confusion and needless appellate challenges.” State v. Williams (1988), 38 Ohio St.3d 346, 356 , 528 N.E.2d 910, 922, fn. 14 , certiorari denied (1989) , 489 U.S. 1040 , 109 S.Ct. 1176 , 103 L.Ed.2d 238 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statement is not hearsay if it is admitted to prove that the declarant made it, rather than to prove the truth of its contents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the remaining evidence, standing alone, constitutes overwhelming proof of defendant's guilt.”
3 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.