Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Rose v. State (1986), Battle v. State (1970)
73 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 89 Okla. Crim. 160 - Hudman v. State · French v. State · 58 Okla. Crim. 432 - Bean v. State · Carr v. State · Shaffer 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. It is error for the trial court to instruct the jury on time credits as provided in 57 O.S.Supp.1968, § 138, but where the instruction is given after a determination of the defendant’s guilt, it does not constitute reversible error. 2. Where it appears that the giving of an erroneous instruction, together with other errors not requiring reversal, may have caused the jury to impose a greater sentence, in the interest of justice the judgment and sentence will be modified and as so modified, affirmed.””
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. State · Fitchew v. State““ * * * [T]he provisions of 57 O.S. Supp.1969, § 138, making it mandatory for the courts to instruct the jury as to its provisions, and providing ‘that the provisions of this section may be commented upon in the argument of any such trial’ are an unconstitutional encroachment by the Legislature upon the Judicial powers of the State.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. State · Garrison v. State““Every convict who shall have no infraction of the rules and regulations of the prison or laws of the State recorded against him shall be allowed * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Patillo v. State · Tiffie 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.