Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Smith v. State (1984), Beck v. State (1986)
28 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 Von Byrd v. State · Williams v. State · Lejeune v. State · 148 Tex. Crim. 445 - Broughton v. State · Scott 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tools were offered into evidence after Graves identified the tire tools in Exhibit Number One as the ones that he tagged that night. Appellant’s counsel objected on the ground that the proper predicate had not been laid. This objection was too general to preserve error. See Boss v. State, 489 S.W.2d 582 (Tex.Cr.App.1973)....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) he intentionally or knowingly damages or destroys the tangible property of the owner; or (2) he intentionally or knowingly tampers with the tangible property of the owner and causes pecuniary loss or substantial inconvenience to the owner or a third person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prejean v. State“[B]efore the commission of the offense alleged above, on the 30th day of June, A.D. 1983 in Cause Number 14, 768 in the 23rd Judicial District Court of Brazoria County, Texas, the defendant... was convicted of the felony offense of Burglary of a Vehicle....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonner 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.