708 So. 2d 703 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 851 So. 2d 921 - State v. Tate (2003), 753 So. 2d 801 - State v. Broadway (1999)
103 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Hernandez v. New York · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious doubt for which you could give good reason”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`firmly convinced that the jury was influenced by the remarks and that they contributed to the verdict.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“weak, scary and shaky on the death penalty”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.