State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2007
14 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 Dipert v. State · Debose v. State · Wise v. State · State v. Palmer · State v. Sierp
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“''The thirty (80) year enhancement brought about by the habitual offender statute cannot be invoked unless there is, in fact, a prior unrelated felony convietion. The trial court apparently erred in its belief that the finding that appellee was an habitual offender was a finding of a separate felony. This is not the case. The appellee was convicted of a felony and was a person with a prior unrelated felony conviction. Under [IC 35-50-2-2], the trial court had no authority to suspend the sentence. We hold that when a criminal defendant receives an enhanced sentence under the habitual offender statute, such sentence may not be suspended."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. State · Devaney 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.