Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably Estelle v. Williams (1976), Denham v. State (1978)
33 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 Hernandez v. Beto · 172 Tex. Crim. 303 - Barnes v. State · Howard v. State · Ephraim v. State · Minor 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A pocket knife is not per se a ‘deadly weapon.’ Barnes v. State, 172 Tex.Cr.R. 303 , 356 S.W.2d 679 . However, the mode and manner of its use, Richards v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 118 , 178 S.W.2d 517 , and the wounds inflicted on the injured party, Reed v. State, 149 Tex.Cr.R. 208 , 192 S.W.2d 890 , are factors in determining the character of the weapon and the intent to kill.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Danzig v. State“This defendant is sitting in jail clothes. I am assuming he's been in jail to the time of this trial. You are not to take this into consideration. The fact a man is in jail clothes shouldn't make you feel he is guilty any more than if he were in street clothes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estelle v. Williams““A defendant may not remain silent and willingly go to trial in prison garb and thereafter claim error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Kelly
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.