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← 392 SO2D 448 - State v. Williams

State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
4
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 412 So. 2d 1313 - State v. Robicheaux (1982), 404 So. 2d 239 - State v. Johnson (1981)

39 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 925

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Lewis v. United States

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... could rationally conclude that any felony conviction, even a (sic) allegedly invalid one, is a sufficient basis on which to prohibit the possession of a firearm.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Wilson · State v. Fletcher
  2. “is directed unambiguously at any person who "has been convicted by a court of the United States or of a State ... of a felony." No modifier is present, and nothing suggests any restriction on the scope of the term "convicted." "Nothing on the face of the statute suggests a congressional intent to limit its coverage to persons [whose convictions are not subject to collateral attack]."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Fletcher · 461 So. 2d 336 - State v. Bailey
  3. “... any person who has been convicted of ...”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 461 So. 2d 336 - State v. Bailey · 487 So. 2d 147 - State v. Carr

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.