Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

states following

November 2008

most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably 606 So. 2d 1015 - Abram v. State (1992), 485 So. 2d 681 - West v. State (1986)

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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · United States v. DiFrancesco · Reynolds v. States

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.

“It is not for this Court to pass upon credibility of witnesses and where the evidence justifies the verdict it must be accepted as having been found worthy of belief.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Craig v. State · 755 So. 2d 451 - Webster v. State
“(h)earsay testimony concerning the details of a complaint of sexual assault is admissible ... if her statement is shown to have been spontaneous and without indication of manufacture, and if any delay in making the complaint is excusable insofar as it is caused by fear and other equally effective circumstances. People v. Mikula, 84 Mich. App. 108, 116 , 269 N.W.2d 195, 199 (1978). (emphasis added)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 485 So. 2d 1047 - Gill v. State · 735 So. 2d 432 - Veasley v. State
“On that guilty verdict by the jury, with no other sentence to be imposed, the status of the case was the same as in Bullock v. Harpole, supra. Therefore, we hold that the trial judge was not required to send the jury back to the jury room for the purpose of returning a verdict of life imprisonment, and he did not commit error in the procedure followed by him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 440 So. 2d 246 - Dycus v. State · 492 So. 2d 581 - McBride 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.