Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
18 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 85 Cal. App. 3d 447 - People v. Walls · 470 So. 2d 764 - State v. Smith · Perez v. State · 466 So. 2d 424 - Haywood v. State · State v. Perez
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to discourage the possession of a firearm at any time during the course of a criminal endeavor;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether the three-year mandatory minimum required by section 775.087(2) ... applies to a burglary conviction if the defendant was not in possession of a firearm when he initiated the burglary but only acquired the firearm after entering the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no evidence that the legislature intended any distinction based upon the timing of the perpetrator's possession”
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.