State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the absence of a mandatory statute, it is the better view that both the words ‘a true bill,’ and the signature of the foreman may be dispensed with if the fact of the jury’s finding appears in any other form in the record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jones

2. ““Every objection to any indictment for any formal defect apparent on the face thereof, shall be taken by demurrer or motion to quash such indictment, before the jury shall be sworn, and not afterwards,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jones