State v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Okumura (1995), State v. Hoey (1994)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 State v. Pokini · State v. Keliiholokai · State v. Amorin · 2 Haw. App. 643 - State v. Messamore
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The court's] investigation into the totality of the circumstances includes an 'individual examination of potentially tainted jurors, outside the presence of the other jurors, to determine the influence, if any, of the extraneous matters'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a juror's obtaining of extraneous definitions or statement of law differing from that intended by the court is misconduct which may result in prejudice to the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fair trial by an impartial jury is guaranteed”
2 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.