Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
March 1998
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Warren v. State · Dyson v. State · Garcia v. State · Dirck v. State · Jones 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Self-defense is an issue; 2. There are facts in evidence which show that the deceased made the first attack on the defendant; and 3. The defendant did some act or used some words intended to and calculated to bring on the difficulty in order to have a pretext for inflicting injury upon the deceased.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Torres v. State“Assuming ... [the defendant] used the language and pursued the course of conduct attributed to him by the State's witness, to our minds it does not support that it was his purpose to provoke an attack from Butts in order that it might be made a pretext for killing him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“because it would be a bad rule to deprive a defendant of the right of self-defense if he unknowingly and innocently provoked a person into using force against him or if the act or words he used were innocuous and not reasonably calculated to produce a difficulty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.