389 So. 2d 1328 - State v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 664 So. 2d 94 - State v. Johnson (1995), State v. Prestridge (1981)
1 federal appellate · 97 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 Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · Price v. Georgia · 343 So. 2d 722 - State v. Ross · 361 So. 2d 866 - State v. Payton
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of such importance and significance as to violate fundamental requirements of due process”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Now, Second Degree Murderthe crimeis the killing of a human being... (1) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to create great bodily harm... Now, the charge in this case is attempted second degree murder, so now let me define attempt. Attempt is defined as follows: Any person who, having the specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of, and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended, and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would actually have accomplished his purpose..."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Second degree murder is the killing of a human being when the offender is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of [enumerated felonies] even though he has no intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”
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.