388 So. 2d 1345 - Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2013
18 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 140 So. 2d 597 - State Ex Rel. Roberts v. Cochran · Martin v. State · 186 So. 2d 520 - McNeely v. State · Weinstein v. Heyman · Bronson 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question here is whether a defendant probationer can, with impunity, engage in a criminal course of conduct (or for that matter any course of conduct which is essentially contrary to good behavior) during the interval between the date of an order of probation and some subsequent date when the probationary term is to commence. We think not. To hold otherwise would make a mockery of the very philosophy underlying the concept of probation, namely, that given a second chance to live within the rules of society and the law of the land, one will prove that he will thereafter do so and become a useful member of society. Again to draw upon the language of the Martin opinion, it would be a mockery to permit Williamson to claim his continued entitlement to future probation after he deliberately and knowingly violated the trust reposed in him upon the granting of his own request for a reciprocal benefit. We will not approve such a result.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since Williamson’s probationary term, which was to follow his year in jail, had not yet begun, he could not have been in violation of any of its express terms prior to that time — even if he had committed a first degree murder while at liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Santiago v. Ryan“[y]ou will live and remain at liberty without violating any law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pumphrey v. State
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.