511 So. 2d 1017 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2015
11 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 498 So. 2d 863 - Whitehead v. State · 335 So. 2d 280 - Fulton v. State · Cochran v. Cochran · 500 So. 2d 519 - Lawhorne v. State · 491 So. 2d 537 - Bell 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party may attack the credibility of any witness, including an accused, by evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime if the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of [one] year under the law under which the witness was convicted, or if the crime involved dishonesty or false statement regardless of the punishment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. State“The nature of the offenses is admissible only by entering records of the convictions into evidence.”
1 later decision 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.