State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2011
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Blockburger v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · United States v. Martinez · State v. Black
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our role in statutory interpretation is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the legislature. State v. Doe, 588 S.W.2d 549 , [551] (Tenn.1979). Such legislative intent is to be ascertained primarily from the natural and ordinary meaning of the language used when read in context of the entire statute. State v. Southland News Co., Inc., 587 S.W.2d 103 , [106] (Tenn.Cr.App.1979). Criminal statutes must be strictly construed in favor of the defendant. Key v. State, 563 S.W.2d 184 , [188] (Tenn.1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ridge“Constructive possession requires that a person knowingly have 'the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion and control over an object, either directly or through others.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roach v. Rone“[W]e find it impossible to conceive of a situation where a defendant could sell narcotics without being in possession, at least constructively, of those narcotics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Probate Court
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.