State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

133

cited by 133 later decisions

states following

March 2026

most recently cited

131 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Williams (1995), State v. Bays (1999)

131 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 Beck v. State of Ohio · Pointer v. Texas · Roviaro v. United States · 50 Cal. 2d 802 - People v. McShann · State v. Phillips

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

“The identity of an informant must be revealed to a criminal defendant when the testimony of the informant is vital to establishing an element of the crime or would be helpful or beneficial to the accused in preparing or making a defense to criminal charges.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Perez, Unpublished Decision (3-20-2006) · State v. Stevenson, Unpublished Decision (9-7-2004)
“Generally, when the degree of participation of the informant is such that the informant virtually becomes a state's witness, the balance swings in favor of requiring disclosure of the informant's identity. Conversely, where disclosure would not be helpful or beneficial to the accused, the identity of the informant need not be revealed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Williams · State v. Doliboa, Ca2007-07-088 (10-13-2008)
“must give way where disclosure of the informant's identity would be helpful to the accused in making a defense to a criminal charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. State v. Perez, Unpublished Decision (3-20-2006) · State v. James

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.