Sias v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 567 So. 2d 892 - State v. Savino (1990), 889 So. 2d 743 - Huggins v. State (2004)
38 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney · Alford v. Florida · 307 So. 2d 433 - Alford v. State · 117 So. 2d 473 - Williams v. State
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“something so unique or particularly unusual about the perpetrator or his modus operandi that it would tend to establish independently of an identification of him by the collateral crime victim, that he committed the crime charged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must mean something other than that the defendant committed a like crime in the past, for if not, admission of evidence under this theory would swallow up the rule barring evidence to show propensity. Perhaps it is significant that in codifying the Williams rule into the evidence code, the legislature did not list proof of a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court in Williams at the same time rejected the notion that evidence of other crimes could be admitted solely to show propensity. Thus,”
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.