512 So. 2d 666 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992), 556 So. 2d 1016 - Jefferson v. State (1989)
61 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 Strunk v. United States · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · Johnson v. State · Lee v. State of Mississippi · 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“testimony of a single uncorroborated witness is sufficient to sustain a conviction ... even though there may be more than one person testifying to the contrary.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our law presumes the jury does as it is told.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As the reviewing court, we cannot and need not determine with exactitude which witness(es) or what testimony the jury believed or disbelieved in arriving at its verdict. It is enough that the conflicting evidence presented a factual dispute for jury resolution.”
2 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.