Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2004
13 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 American States Insurance v. Piasecki · State v. Webb · 345 So. 2d 417 - Travelers Indem. Co. of RI v. Mirlenbrink · State v. Stevens · Hetland v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable, well-founded suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a criminal offense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A vague description simply will not justify a law enforcement officer in stopping every individual or vehicle which might possibly meet that description.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor 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.