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← 623 SO2D 462 - State v. Williams

State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
4
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Larzelere v. State (1996), 629 So. 2d 90 - Munoz v. State (1993)

58 state decisions

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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 Rochin v. People of California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Olmstead v. United States · Hampton v. United States

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.

  1. “that the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine by law enforcement officials for use in a reverse-sting operation within 1000 feet of a school constitutes governmental misconduct which violates the due process clause of the Florida Constitution.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 623 So. 2d 468 - State v. Levine · 623 So. 2d 469 - State v. Sheffield
  2. “DOES THE SOURCE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS USED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO CONDUCT REVERSE STINGS CONSTITUTIONALLY SHIELD THOSE WHO BECOME ILLICITLY INVOLVED WITH SUCH DRUGS FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY?”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 623 So. 2d 468 - State v. Levine · 623 So. 2d 469 - State v. Sheffield
  3. “that the courts refuse to invoke the judicial process to obtain a conviction where the facts of the case show that the methods used by law enforcement officials cannot be countenanced with a sense of justice and fairness.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Myers · Shanks 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.