463 So. 2d 1064 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985), 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992)
62 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 Sorrells v. United States · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · United States v. Ramirez · Williamson v. United States
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ubstantial knowing participation in the consummation of a sale or in arranging for the sale”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once the jury has returned a verdict of guilty in a criminal case, we are not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion on our part that from the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Williams v. State, the Court stated: Where . .., the full facts and circumstances of the State's arrangements with its bounty hunter witness are disclosed to the jury and where that witness is subject to cross-examination, we will not disturb on this account a subsequent guilty verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.