461 So. 2d 852 - Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Loggins v. State (2000), 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991)
91 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 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · Beecher v. State · Yarber v. State · 370 So. 2d 736 - Whitt v. State · 461 So. 2d 834 - Williams 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case where there has been a direct reference to a defendant's failure to testify and the trial court has not acted promptly to cure that comment, the conviction must be reversed.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In evaluating a claim that the prosecutor's statement amounted to a comment on the defendant's failure to testify, "the facts and circumstances of each case must be carefully analyzed to determine whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"But there's no testimony that he was coerced into making a statement about something he didn't do. . . . There's no evidence presented on the stand that Danny Ray Williams made a statement for something he didn't do."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.