Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2012
14 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 Strickland v. Washington · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · New York v. Ferber · Thomas v. United States · Washington v. Watkins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court’s observations in United States v. Guerra, 628 F.2d 410, 413 (5th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 934 , 101 S.Ct. 1398 , 67 L.Ed.2d 369 (1981), are appropriate here: “ ‘The burden is on [the petitioner] to allege and establish facts showing counsel’s failure to call witnesses rendered his trial fundamentally unfair. Coon v. United States, 441 F.2d 279 (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 860 [ 92 S.Ct. 160 , 30 L.Ed.2d 103 ] (1971). Complaints concerning uncalled witnesses impose a heavy showing since the presentation of testimonial evidence is a matter of trial strategy and often allegations of what a. witness would have testified to are largely speculative. Buckelew v. United States, 575 F.2d 515, 521 (5th Cir.1978). None of the alleged witnesses were called at the [federal ha-beas corpus] hearing and no one knows what they would have testified to. All we have is what [the petitioner] says they would have said.’ “Courts have viewed claims of ineffective assistance of counsel with great cau tion when the only evidence of a missing witness’s testimony is from the defendant. See, e.g., Schwander v. Blackburn, 750 F.2d 494, 500 (5th Cir.1985); United States v. Cockrell, 720 F.2d 1423, 1427 (5th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1251 , 104 S.Ct. 3534 , 82 L.Ed.2d 839 (1984); Maxwell v. Mabry, 672 F.2d 683 (8th Cir.1982); Washington v. Watkins, 655 F.2d 1346, 1363-64 (5th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 949 , 102 S.Ct. 2021 , 72 L.Ed.2d 474 (1982). “Although Will”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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