539 So. 2d 1049 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 606 So. 2d 1051 - Jones v. State (1992), 617 So. 2d 248 - Sperry-New Holland v. Prestage (1993)
28 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 Roney v. State · United States v. Delk · Murriel 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purpose of rebuttal testimony is to explain, repel, counteract or disprove evidence by the adverse party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]pinion testimony as to a witness's truthfulness is of dubious competency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“With regard to the motion that I made with my hands, what I made was a motion for him to go ahead and now give the information that the Court had previously ruled as inadmissible, that being what he determined, why he determined the probable cause for the arrest. The Court had previously stated that he could not say what Brenda Chance had told him. The Defense Attorney then said, "You wanted him back in jail, why didn't you arrest him again?" And I told him he could now go ahead and say that. That was my sole purpose for my telling him that he could go ahead with that testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.