People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Pritchard v. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (1961), United States v. Riley (1990)
7 federal appellate · 30 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 Wilson v. United States · 5 Ill. 2d 251 - People v. Crump · People v. . Webster · State v. Gleim · State v. Schuman
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is only after a long and serious deliberation that we hold inadmissible expert testimony that narcotics addicts of the same type as a witness are unworthy of belief in the absence of a clear and con vincing showing to the full satisfaction of the trial judge that such is the consensus of medical and scientific opinion. The reliability of such a thesis must be clearly established before a jury may be subjected to its influence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.