Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2012
9 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 LeDuc v. Florida · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades Inc · Straight v. State · 570 So. 2d 925 - Czubak v. State · 366 So. 2d 745 - Salvatore 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the danger that the jury will take the bad character or propensity to crime thus demonstrated as evidence of guilt of the crime charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the price of such zeal is a reversal, with its attendant costs and burdens to the people of Florida.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant had `gotten himself in trouble in Miami' when there was no evidence to that effect.”
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.