Williams v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
575 federal appellate · 63 district · 1,123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,167 later decisions (90 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971)
575 federal appellate · 63 district · 1,123 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 · Schmerber v. State of California · Benton v. Maryland · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Malloy v. Hogan
Cited together with Baldwin v. New York Williams · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Wardius v. Oregon · Patton v. United States · Apodaca v. Oregon
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 2,167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fair possibility for obtaining a representative cross-section of the community.”
71 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The adversary system of trial is hardly an end in itself; it is not yet a poker game in which players enjoy an absolute right always to conceal their cards until played.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That the defendant faces such a dilemma demanding a choice between complete silence and presenting a defense has never been thought an invasion of the privilege against compelled self-incrimination.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.