Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 1982
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Haynes v. State · Culmore v. State · Payne v. State · Ramos v. State · Hausman 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The meager circumstances here presented do not support the jury’s verdict that the appellant was guilty of either the exclusive or joint possession of the contraband found in the refrigerator. A conviction on circumstantial evidence cannot be sustained if the circumstances proven do not exclude every other reasonable hypothesis except that of the guilt of the accused, and proof amounting only to strong suspicion or mere probability is insufficient (citations omitted).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Damron 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.