383 So. 2d 369 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Shapiro (1983), 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal (2001)
4 federal appellate · 92 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gregg v. Georgia · Brown v. Illinois
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ring · State v. Messiah“armed robbery was an immediate concomitant of the murder and formed, in conjunction with it, one continuous transaction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The offender was engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of an ... aggravated burglary; (2) the offender knowingly created a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person....”
2 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.