472 So. 2d 738 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 790 So. 2d 398 - Jackson v. Florida Dept. of Corrections (2001), 665 So. 2d 1063 - Schneelock v. State (1995)
44 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 Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · Petition of Graham ex rel. Nine Condemned Men v. State · 253 So. 2d 424 - Hooks v. State · 455 So. 2d 543 - 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]videntiary hearings are adversarial in nature, and the rules of evidence and procedure are mystifyingly complex to all but the most sophisticated non-lawyers.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Havard v. State · Lee 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.