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420 So. 2d 91 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited

10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2009

10 state decisions

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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 Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Powell v. Texas · Castle v. United States · 29 Ala. App. 472 - Pinkerton v. State · In Re Upshaw

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

  1. “"(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 22, Title 15, with respect to any person who is found to have violated this article, adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence shall not be suspended, deferred, or withheld, nor shall such person be eligible for parole prior to serving the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment prescribed by this article."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “is to be determined largely by the preventive effect upon the commission of the particular kind of crime for which the fine is imposed”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “. . . actual or constructive possession of, in excess of one kilo or 2.2 pounds of cannabis . . .”
    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.