State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), State v. Cazes (1994)
136 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States Smith v. Baldi · State v. Cabbage · State v. Grace
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the witness must be expert; (2) the subject matter of the witness’ testimony must be proper; (3) the subject matter must conform to a generally accepted explanatory theory; and (4) the probative value of the witness’ testimony must outweigh its prejudicial effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schimpf · State v. Oody“so clearly interwoven and connected that the finger of guilt is pointed unerringly at the Defendant and the Defendant alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Black · State v. Smith“Although the defendant “urge[s] this Court to adopt a rule of law allowing an indigent defendant funds for expert assistance,” we decline to do so. “Essentially this is a matter that addresses itself to the judgment and discretion of the legislature. Thus far it has not seen fit to provide such services to indigent defendants.” Graham, 547 S.W.2d at 536 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Evans
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.