Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)
75 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 McClain v. State · 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State · 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State · 556 So. 2d 1016 - Jefferson v. State · 473 So. 2d 452 - Winters 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or the military when in actual service, or by leave of the court for misdemeanor in office or where a defendant represented by counsel by sworn statement waives indictment; but the legislature, in cases not punishable by death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary, may dispense with the inquest of the grand jury, and may authorize prosecutions before justice court judges, or such other inferior court or courts as may be established, and the proceedings in such cases shall be regulated by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court has held that it is the duty of an appellant to provide authority and support of an assignment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information....”
2 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.