71 Cal. 2d 614 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson (1972)
3 federal appellate · 104 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Escobedo v. Illinois · Schmerber v. State of California
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with considerable suspicion and disfavor any exclusion of a juror ... which is not based on a question phrased in the terms Witherspoon so unmistakably suggests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]alice is presumed and the burden is on [ defendant ] `to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors that malice was present.' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion”
1 later decision 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.