Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Mason v. Hanks (1996), Wickizer v. State (1993)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Johnston 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I received information, in October, from an informant, that an Ernest Williams, a black male, was involved in the robbery of a Village Pantry on the south-side of Indianapolis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Newbauer v. State“[tlestimo-ny which contains out-of-court statements by third parties but [which] is introduced primarily to explain why a particular course of action was taken”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Craig 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.