Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State (2005), 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007)
38 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · Trammel v. United States · Lee v. Illinois · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not warrant reversal if the jury was fully and fairly instructed by other instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cohen v. State · Ferrell v. State“(b) Hearsay Exceptions. The following are not excluded by the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness: * * * * * (3) Statement Against Interest. A statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject him to civil or criminal liability, ... that a reasonable man in his position would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]ury instructions are to be read as a whole and no one instruction is to be taken out of context of the whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tompkins v. State · Cohen 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.