Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2011
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Oxendine v. State · Tarter v. State · 94 Okla. Crim. 145 - Mott v. State · 5 Okla. Crim. 371 - Guiaccimo v. State · Igo 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he jury might reasonably interpret the evidence to show that the initial firing of the gun was caused by a sudden and unexpected attempt to attack defendant with a pair of scissors and fired by the defendant while in a heat of passion,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . if there is any evidence that would reduce the crime from murder to manslaughter the trial court should instruct upon manslaughter in the first degree. Welborn v. State, 70 Okl.Cr. 97 , 105 P.2d 187 ; and Tucker v. State, 66 Okl.Cr. 335 , 92 P.2d 595 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“Homicide committed with a design to effect death is not the less murder because the perpetrator was in a state of anger or voluntary intoxication at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan 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.