Willover v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Reyna v. State (2005), Hartsfield v. State (2010)
97 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 Montgomery v. State · Reichelt v. Gates · Romero v. State · State v. Ross · Famor 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In .examining a witness concerning a prior inconsistent statement made by the witness, whether oral or written, and before further cross-examination concerning, or extrinsic evidence of, such statement may be allowed, the witness must be told the contents of such statement and the time 'and place and the person to whom it was made, and must be afforded an opportunity to explain or deny such statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not address the Court of Appeals holding that `when [Rule 801(e)(2)] uses the term `admission by party-opponent,' it includes those of the defendant and the complaining witness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. State“what was before the trial court at the time the ruling was made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed 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.