Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Royster v. State (1981), Brown v. State (1986)
59 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 Denham v. State · Limuel v. State · McBrayer v. State · Dovalina v. State · Brooks 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nunfio v. State · Turner v. State“protracted impairment ... of the function of any bodily member,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State“lose the lifting power in his arm for three months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore 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.