Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Mallett v. State (2001), Perkins v. Court of Appeals for Third Supreme Judicial District of Texas (1987)
43 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Dewees v. United States · Brown v. Beto · McNew v. State · Cooks v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After I admonished [appellant] of the consequences of his plea, I ascertained that [appellant] entered into it knowingly and voluntarily after discussing the case with the attorney of record in this case. It appears that [appellant] is mentally competent and the plea is free and voluntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McNeill 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.