397 So. 2d 1287 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King (1983), 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee (1983)
72 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Coker v. Georgia
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judge in the presence of the jury shall not comment upon the facts of the case, either by commenting upon or recapitulating the evidence, repeating the testimony of any witness, or giving an opinion as to what has been proved, not proved, or refuted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nolen · State v. Gultry“[w]ithout the trial court's articulation of the factual basis of each ground which influenced its disposition, a sentence may appear to be arbitrary or excessive, unless there is evidence elsewhere of record which clearly illumines the sentencing choice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Wallace“the imposition of a sentence, although within the statutory limit, may violate a defendant's constitutional rights against excessive punishment that is enforceable by this court on appellate review of his conviction.”
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.