Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1985
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Gilbert v. California · Martinez v. State · Frison 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness who has identified a defendant at trial may testify that prior to trial he identified a photograph of the witness, or the witness may testify that prior to trial he identified the defendant while the defendant was in custody (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watts 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.