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Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
July 2012
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Holland v. State (1988), Whitten v. State (1979)

38 state decisions

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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 Boykin v. Alabama · Guster v. State · Wilson v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 24 - Vavra v. State · Williams 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"If the defendant pleads guilty, or enters a plea of nolo contendere, he shall be admonished by the court of the consequences; and neither of such pleas shall be received unless it plainly appears that he is mentally competent, and is uninfluenced by any consideration of fear, or by any persuasion, or delusive hope of pardon, prompting him to confess his guilt."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Guster v. State
  2. “"The Supreme Court's requirement for the determination of voluntariness is the consideration of the entire record. The review of the voluntariness of the guilty plea should not be based solely on questions and answers in the statement of facts, but on the record as a whole."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Richards v. State
  3. “that the judge is not bound to follow recommendations, if any, concerning punishment herein ...”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jamail 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.