State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Odom (1996), State v. Bland (1997)
11 federal appellate · 90 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · Giglio v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“infliction of severe physical or mental pain upon the victim while he or she remains alive and conscious.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Bell · Payne v. Bell“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel in that it involved torture or depravity of mind.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““Heinous — grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable; odious; vile. Atrocious — extremely evil or cruel; monstrous; exceptionally bad; abominable. Cruel — disposed to inflict pain or suffering; causing suffering; painful. Torture — the infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion; the experience of this; mental anguish; any method or thing that causes such pain or anguish; to inflict with great physical or mental pain. Depravity — moral corruption; wicked or perverse act.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Bell · Payne v. Bell
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.