Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Troupe · State v. Wright · Nichols v. State · Crawley v. State · Parsons 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The escape rule enforces an understanding that 'those who seek the protection of this legal system must ... be willing to abide by its rules and decisions'; absconding defendants will not be rewarded for their actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolf v. State“'The escape rule is a judicially-created doctrine that operates to deny the right of appeal to a criminal defendant who escapes justice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benedict v. State“The escape rule applies to appeals on the merits as well as to motions for post-conviction relief under Rules 29.15 and 24.035.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolf 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.