State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Singh (2002), State v. Alexander (2000)
55 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 · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · State v. Golding
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]espite the defendant's objections that he did not have the burden of proving his alibi defense and the trial court's rulings that the state was misrepresenting its burden of proof to the jury, the prosecutor repeatedly maintained that the defendant purposefully and selectively showed unclear surveillance photographs to the jury because he had no better evidence in support of his alibi ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“distort the state's burden of proof and ... allocate[d] to the defendant the burden ....”
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.