Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Alexander v. McCotter (1985), Walker v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Lakeside v. Oregon · Harris v. State · Watson v. State · Williams v. State · Dovalina 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 6th day of March, 1979, in El Paso County, Texas, the defendant, EDUARDO GARCIA ANTUNEZ, did then and there unlawfully while in the course of committing theft and with intent to obtain property of ROBERT URRUTIA, to-wit: American Currency, without the effective consent of the said ROBERT URRUTIA, with intent to deprive the said ROBERT URRUTIA of said property, did then and there by using and exhibiting a deadly weapon, to-wit: a knife that in the manner of its use and intended use was capable of causing death and serious bodily injury, intentionally and knowingly threaten and place ROBERT URRUTIA in fear of imminent bodily injury and death, then you will find the defendant GUILTY of aggravated robbery as charged in the indictment (Verdict Form `B'). If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, EDUARDO GARCIA ANTUNEZ, committed the offense of robbery as herein defined, but you have a reasonable doubt as to whether he used or exhibited a deadly weapon in committing said robbery, then you will find the defendant guilty only of robbery, and not of aggravated robbery (Verdict Form `B-1')."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Antunez v. State · Riley v. State“If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 8th day of August, 1981, in the County of Wichita and the State of Texas, the Defendant, George Raymond Oliver, did intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual, Johnny Lloyd Hicks, by shooting the said Johnny Lloyd Hicks with a firearm; or if you find that the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury and committed an act clearly dangerous to human life that caused the death of an individual, Johnny Lloyd Hicks, then you will find the Defendant guilty of murder as charged in the indictment. Unless you so find beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the Defendant of murder and proceed to consider the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Oliver v. State · Shannon v. State“[T]he charge contained certain abstract principles governing the law of aggravated assault, but at no time was there an application of those principles of law to the specific facts of the case.”
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.