Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1975
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mr. Bishop, in his valuable work on Criminal Procedure, vol. 1, § 814, says: ‘It is a doctrine prevailing almost everywhere in this country, that, in capital cases, the jury can never be permitted to leave the presence of the court, even on adjournment over night, except in charge of a sworn officer, and then they must be kept together.’ Yet, he says, ‘in South Carolina it is held to be within the discretion of the court, even in capital cases, to permit the "jury to separate at the adjournment from day to day.’ The like doctrine and practice appear to prevail in Connecticut. This author also says: ‘In some of the States, the rule which forbids the court to permit a separation, extends to felonies not capital.’ “This we think the better and safer practice, and we recommend it as a rule for the government of the courts in this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell 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.