Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1991
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 291st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Almanza v. State · Finch v. Connor · Thomas v. State · Cumbie v. State · Russell 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by threatening to use force or violence against the other person, and the other person believes that the actor has the present ability to execute the threat....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leger 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.