Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

cited by 49 later decisions

cited 3 times by the Supreme Court

states following

August 2015

most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 49 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), Harris v. Alabama (1995)

46 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 Tibbs v. Florida · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary

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

“[A]n appellate court should not retry a case or reweigh conflicting evidence submitted to a jury or other trier of fact. Rather, the concern on appeal must be whether, after all conflicts in the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom have been resolved in favor of the verdict on appeal, there is substantial, competent evidence to support the verdict and judgment. It is our function, then, to see if there is substantial, competent evidence to support the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 803 So. 2d 629 - Hertz v. State · 803 So. 2d 656 - Looney v. State
“At the penalty phase [of the] trial the defendant presented evidence from rela: tives and friends that he is a good person and that he was kind to them. This evidence does not rise to a non-statutory mitigating circumstance which could offset the aggravating circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. State v. Williams · 503 So. 2d 890 - Williams v. Wainwright
“unless palpable abuse of this discretion is clearly shown from the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Hughes v. State · 943 So. 2d 149 - Cloyd 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.