Williams v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
567 U.S. 50 · 2012
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably People v. Sanchez (2016), 156 Ohio St. 3d 85 - State v. Tench (2018)
7 federal appellate · 111 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Crawford v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Wade
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rely on [the testifying witness'] status as an expert to circumvent the [c]onfrontation [c]lause's requirements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[u]nder our Confrontation Clause precedents, this is an open-and-shut case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“entirely consistent with Bullcoming and Melendez-Diaz.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Lawson · State v. Lawson
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.