512 So. 2d 868 - Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State (1997), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)
1 federal appellate · 117 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 Barker v. Wingo · Bruton v. United States · Wainwright v. Witt · Moran v. Burbine · Richardson v. Marsh
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal to this Court convictions of capital murder and sentences of death must be subjected to what has been labeled `heightened scrutiny.' Under this method of review, all bona fide doubts are to be resolved in favor of the accused because `what may be harmless error in a case with less at stake becomes reversible error when the penalty is death.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because of this, once the jury is empaneled, all cautionary measures possible should be taken to prevent extraneous or outside influence from reaching the jury in an effort to ensure impartiality and to ensure that the accused receives a fair trial.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prospective jurors in capital cases may only be excluded for cause based upon their views on capital punishment when those views would `prevent or substantially impair the performance [their] [sic] duties as juror[s] in accordance with [their] instructions and oath.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State · Taylor v. State
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.