Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Watkins v. Commonwealth (1985), Allridge v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Matlock · Texas v. Brown
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a capital felony case in which the State seeks the death penalty, the court shall propound to the entire panel of prospective jurors questions concerning the principles, as applicable to the ease on trial, of reasonable doubt, burden of proof, return of indictment by grand jury, presumption of innocence, and opinion. 7 Then, on demand of the State or defendant, either is entitled to examine each juror on voir dire individually and apart from the entire panel, and may further question the juror on the principle propounded by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. State“... [I]n the present case [Williams'] statements show that he and [the accomplice] planned the death of both store attendants several hours, not minutes, apart ... After participating in [the first] capital murder [Williams] selected the second victim, a former coworker, a man he knew would recognize him. The jury was entitled to infer that when appellant drove to the second store he had every intention of killing the attendant in a "calculated and cold-blooded" manner, in order to make sure there were no witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkerson v. State““Notwithstanding the age of appellant and his lack of a prior criminal record, we find, that the record as a whole supports the jury’s affirmative answer to the second question concerning future conduct.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.