Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Skinner v. State (1990), Monroe v. State (1995)
1 district · 27 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Holland v. United States · Tennessee v. Garner · Solem v. Helm · Robinson v. State of California
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[WJhether the evidence, viewed in its entirety and including all reasonable inferences, is sufficient to enable a jury to find that the State’s charge has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Screpesi“less severe than the one invalidated in Solem , in which the petitioner had been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradshaw 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.