424 So. 2d 148 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2017
21 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 Loftin v. Wilson · 390 So. 2d 315 - King v. State · De La Rosa v. State · 301 So. 2d 762 - Slaughter v. State · 414 So. 2d 234 - Kalinosky 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considerable discretion in determining the extent of counsel's examination of prospective jurors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Florida, a reasonable voir dire examination of prospective jurors by counsel is assured by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.300(b) (footnote omitted). The purpose of voir dire is to obtain a "fair and impartial jury to try the issues in the cause." (Citation omitted.) Time restrictions or limits on numbers of questions can result in the loss of this fundamental right. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“asking pertinent questions not covered by the State or the court by a very short time limit imposed without apparent warning”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. State
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.