456 So. 2d 852 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 601 So. 2d 52 - Ex Parte Matthews (1992), Barnwell v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Solem v. Helm · Rummel v. Estelle · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Anthony v. United States · United States v. Ballard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless found to be manifestly contrary to the great weight of the evidence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DMM v. State · Saffold 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.