State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
296 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 297 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 719 So. 2d 610 - State v. Owens (1998), 827 So. 2d 508 - State v. Gilliam (2002)
296 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · State v. Richardson
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 297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The intentional use of force or violence upon the person of a police officer, or the intentional administration of a poison or other noxious liquid or substance to a police officer; 2. without the consent of the victim; 3. when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer acting in the performance of his duty.”
4 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.