People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2022
14 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 Wardius v. Oregon · People v. Green · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 52 Cal. 3d 1210 - People v. Pensinger
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is reasonable to expect that all persons, whether guilty or innocent, will cooperate with a lawful police request.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an active, conscious activity which readily and logically tends to support the inference of consciousness of guilt,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“constitute[s] mere compliance with a lawful police request,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Starr 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.