State v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

583

cited by 583 later decisions

states following

February 2026

most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 569 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 583 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Waddy (1992), 79 Ohio App. 3d 667 - State v. Caldwell (1992)

5 federal appellate · 569 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 Lockett v. Ohio · State v. Long · State v. Fanning · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Carter v. Kentucky

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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“is to be taken with the utmost caution, under exceptional circumstances and only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. State v. Wise, 2008-Ca-9 (12-31-2008) · State v. Godbolt, Unpublished Decision (1-26-2004)
“'(1) [he or the other person who was being defended] was not at fault in creating the violent situation, (2) [he] had a bona fide belief that [another] was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that [the] only means of escape was the use of force, and (3) that the defendant did not violate any duty to retreat or avoid the danger.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. United States v. Adkins · State v. Vint, 23510 (4-9-2008)
“If the defendant fails to prove any one of these elements by a preponderance of the evidence he has failed to demonstrate that he acted in self-defense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Berger, Unpublished Decision (12-14-2006) · State v. Caudill, Wd-07-009 (3-31-2008)

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.