44 Cal. 3d 883 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 265 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt (1994), People v. Holt (1997)
11 federal appellate · 265 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Cronic · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if during the course of the argument you thought you heard any comment about the law as being that it was that you shall impose a sentence of death if you conclude that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the-mitigating circumstances, or you shall impose mitigating — excuse me, life imprisonment without possibility of parole if you feel that mitigating circumstances outweigh the aggravating circumstances, I tell you that’s not the law that applies to the case. You may use those. As the way in which you go about this. But the way in which you go about it is up to you. And the law does not say you shall do one or the other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Competent representation does not demand that counsel seek repetitive examinations of the defendant until an expert is found who will offer a supportive opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that a party who himself offers inadmissible evidence is estopped to assert error in regard thereto”
2 later decisions 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.