Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
May 1987
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coulter v. State · Palmer v. State · Bellah v. State · Whitfield v. State · Lopez 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... error therein [in a court's charge to which no objection was interposed] will be considered as fundamental error `only in those cases where the erroneous charge goes to the basis of the case and is contrary to and fails to state the law under which the accused is prosecuted.'" Id. at 86 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jewell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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