Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Adanandus v. State (1993), Werner v. State (1986)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Warren v. State · Plunkett v. State · Dockery v. State · Stiles v. State · Austin 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to an affirmative defensive instruction on every issue raised by the evidence regardless of whether it is strong, feeble, unim-peached, or contradicted, and even if the trial court is of the opinion that the testimony is not entitled to belief. The defendant’s testimony alone may be sufficient to raise a defensive theory requiring a charge.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage“No act done by accident is an offense, except in certain cases specifically provided for where there has been a degree of carelessness or negligence which the law regards as criminal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rogers 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.