Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Cooks v. State (1992), Webb v. State (1988)
34 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 Ward v. State · Ex Parte Lewis · Ex Parte Reynolds · Resnick v. State · Ex Parte March
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the trial court number of the prior conviction; (2) the correct name of the court where the prior conviction was taken; (3) the date of the prior conviction; (4) the term of years of the prior conviction; and (5) the nature of the prior conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · Matheson v. State“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the punishment herein adjudged against the Defendant, Jimmy Wayne Matheson, shall begin when the judgment and sentence in Cause No. 21,-812, Attempted Capital Murder with a Deadly Weapon, shall have ceased to operate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matheson v. State“while a cumulation order may be placed in both the judgment and sentence, a cumulation order placed only in the sentence is valid.” 675 S.W.2d at 763 . 2 . As the Court of Criminal Appeals said in Williams :”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez 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.