Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably 596 So. 2d 957 - Traylor v. State (1992), Hawkins v. State (1983)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Massiah v. United States · Brewer v. Williams · Michigan v. Mosley
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the Supreme Court left unanswered the issue of when and under what circumstances questioning of the accused may resume, it left no room for doubt that the admissibility of a statement taken from a person in custody depends on whether his ‘ “right to cut off questioning” was “scrupulously honored.” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faulder v. State“Appellant may not have a witness testify about his good character traits but avoid `placing his reputation in evidence' simply by not specifically asking whether appellant enjoyed a good reputation in the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schumaker v. State“Q. And has his conduct been good since he has been there while he has been there at home? A. Really has.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schumaker 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.