State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 621 So. 2d 769 - State v. Shelton (1993), State v. Godejohn (1983)
46 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 Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · United States v. Timmreck · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl · State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Henderson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the judge discharges that function [making certain that a defendant has a full understanding of what his plea connotes and of its consequence] he leaves a record adequate for any review that may be later sought [citations omitted] and forestalls the spin-off of collateral proceedings that seek to probe murky memories.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Warren“that the record contain on its face direct evidence that the accused was made aware by the trial judge of his right to jury trial, his right to confront accusers, and his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The United States Supreme Court ruled that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Warren
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.