Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Timberlake v. State (2001), Torres v. El Paso Electric Co. (1999)
4 federal appellate · 107 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice ... that course should be followed.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grinstead v. State · Downs v. State“[t]o prevail on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, [the petitioner] must show both deficient performance and resulting prejudice.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'leads unerringly and unmistakably to a conclusion opposite to that reached by the [] court.'”
7 later decisions 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.