480 So. 2d 721 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Lowenfield v. Phelps (1988), 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque (1993)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Roberts v. Louisiana · Roberts v. Louisiana
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Deboue · Hogan v. Warden“[T]he offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon more than one person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“by a series of acts in a single consecutive course of conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.