Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gissendanner v. State · 485 So. 2d 475 - Simmons v. State · Stanley v. State · Kelly v. State · 538 So. 2d 85 - Fortner 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial attorney's failure to investigate a factual defense or a defense relying on the suppression of evidence, which results in the entry of an ill-advised plea of guilty, has long been held to constitute a facially sufficient attack upon the conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. State · Jenrette v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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