State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1991
4 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 State v. Collins · State v. Ball · State v. Houston · State v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though defendant did not know the alleged witness, he had seen the man on previous occasions and had been gambling with him prior to the shooting. Defendant could identify the alleged witness, could locate him through information obtained by talking to other persons who had gambled with defendant and the alleged witness on the day of the shooting, or could locate him in the neighborhood where defendant had previously seen him. Defendant also had the superior means of knowledge regarding the nature of the testimony of the alleged witness, and of the value of that testimony to him.... Defendant was the only person at the scene who saw or heard the alleged witness. The state had no knowledge of the existence of this alleged witness, no description of the unidentified man, and no indication of the contents of any testimony he might give. (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gillis
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.