Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Grubbs v. State (1988), Williams v. Armontrout (1990)
3 federal appellate · 21 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 · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley · Baker v. Missouri · Castorr Et Al. v. Brundage Et Al.
Most-quoted passages
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“Complaint is made that counsel failed to call Robert Day to testify that Day had borrowed money from Williams at 9:30 p.m. on October 9 at Williams’ home in Fulton. Hyler testified that he had Day attend the trial and talked with him in the hall. He stated Day was with a girl friend who told Hyler that if Day testified that he was at Williams’ home on the evening of October 9 she would testify that Day was not there at that time. After the girl friend made that statement, Day told Hyler he could not remember whether or not he was at Williams’ home. Hyler testified that he talked with Marshall and Williams and told them about his conversation with Day and the girl friend, and the conclusion was reached that they could not accomplish anything with Day. This evidence does not support a conclusion that counsel was ineffective for failing to call Day. Further, Williams makes no effort to demonstrate how it would have been impossible for him to have been at home at 9:30 p.m. and still have been involved in a murder that occurred several hours later just a short distance away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Williams contends that Hyler did not properly question Roger Hazlett concerning his knowledge of events which occurred in the early morning of October 10. At the murder trial there was evidence Williams and Morgan went to the Hazlett home in the early morning of October 10 and burned their bloody clothing in the front yard. Williams contends that Hyler failed to ask Hazlett the proper questions during his investigation so as to reveal that Hazlett had information which would have refuted Morgan’s testimony that Williams and Morgan burned their clothing at Hazlett’s home. Williams contends that Hyler simply asked Hazlett what he knew and did not ask specific questions. Contrary to Williams’ contention Hyler testified that he talked with Hazlett and covered Haz-lett ‘from the water front in all directions and he just flat told me he was drunk and asleep ... and he didn’t know anything about it.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Both attorneys testified that a principal difficulty in preparing Williams’ defense was the fact that Williams could not account for his activities on the night of October 9 and early morning of October 10, 1980, when the murder of Brummett occurred. When the state filed a motion for discovery seeking to determine if Williams was relying on an alibi defense, Williams gave his attorneys five possible alibis. It was not until virtually the day of trial that Williams finally said his alibi would be that he was in bed with his girl friend Nina Potts. Williams testified in this case to his complaints against the attorneys. Williams testified that he is a college graduate and works in the law library in the penitentiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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