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Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably O'BRYAN v. State (1979), Anderson v. State (1982)

43 state decisions

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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 McDonald v. State · 147 Tex. Crim. 62 - Wolfe v. State · Hernandez v. State · Wall v. State · Davis v. Gale

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It has been the holding of this court that there is a fundamental distinction between prejudice on the part of a juror ... and the entertaining of an opinion.... [A] trial judge may hold a juror qualified who states that he can lay aside any opinion which he may have formed.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Anson v. State · Kemp v. State
  2. ““There is a fundamental distinction between prejudice on the part of a juror and the entertaining of an opinion on his part. When it appears that the feeling had by the proposed juror is really one of prejudice, and that it is directed toward the accused, it is not ordinarily deemed possible for such a juror to be qualified by stating that he can lay aside such prejudice, etc. It is easily possible for one who entertains a deep-seated prejudice to believe himself able to lay it aside, but human experience teaches the contrary.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cumbo 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.