403 So. 2d 453 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2016
8 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Mathiason · Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · State v. Webb · United States v. Hall
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]his was true even though appellant appeared cooperative and voluntarily accompanied the officer. A number of decisions support the right of a peace officer to conduct a pat-down search for weapons, for protection of the officer, prior to placing a person into a police vehicle.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lombardi“[Williams] and his vehicle resembled closely, but not exactly, the description given by the victim of the crime. The circumstances were sufficient to warrant further investigation but not to support the arrest of appellant at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining `custody,' the majority of courts have utilized an objective test ... whether, under the circumstances, a reasonable person would have believed he was in custody.”
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.