48 Ala. App. 737 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably 479 So. 2d 1362 - Seawright v. State (1985), 52 Ala. App. 272 - Clay v. State (1974)
32 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 21 Ala. App. 289 - Douglass v. State · 24 Ala. App. 300 - Thompson v. State · Henderson 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential elements of robbery may be sub-divided as follows: (a) Felonious intent; (b) force, or (by) putting in fear, as a means of effectuating the intent; (c) and, by that means, a taking and carrying away of the property of another from his person or in his presence.” Williams v. State, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]obbery is the felonious taking of money or goods of value from the person of another or in his presence by violence to his person or putting him in fear.”
1 later decision 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.