689 So. 2d 393 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2018
14 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 Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · McKay v. Jobin · Licht v. Texas Commerce Bank · Connecticut Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's confession or statement may be considered in connection with the other evidence, but the corpus delicti cannot rest upon the confession or admission alone. Therefore, the state must introduce substantial independent evidence of corpus delicti that tends to show that the charged crimes were committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In general, a `golden rule' argument encompasses requests that the jurors place themselves in the victim's position, that they imagine the victim's pain and terror, or that they imagine that their relative was the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well-settled law that a judge's adverse rulings may not serve as a sufficient basis for recusal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.