546 So. 2d 705 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2015
12 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 Strickland v. Washington · Biggers v. State of Tennessee · United States v. Harrington · 462 So. 2d 1037 - Vinzant v. State · 21 Ala. App. 289 - Douglass 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "1. The Government must have a demonstrable need to introduce the photographs; and " ' "2. The photographs themselves, if shown to the jury, must not imply that the defendant has a prior criminal record; and " ' "3. The manner of introduction at trial must be such that it does not draw particular attention to the source or implications of the photographs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Townes v. State · Ex Parte Long“1. The Government must have a demonstrable need to introduce the photographs; and”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`In determining whether an instruction . . . should have been given, the question is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.