Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Reed v. State (1978), Corens v. State (1946)
2 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may give an opinion not only as to the nature and effect of an injury, but also the manner or instrument by which it was inflicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.