Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Stringer v. State (1986), 532 So. 2d 1207 - White v. State (1988)
36 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test as to whether a matter is collateral within the meaning of the rule is this: that the cross-examining party be allowed to prove it in support of his case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the jury believed that he made such statement, would it be natural for them to obey the instruction of the court, and restrict their consideration of it to the impeachment of the witness? They might endeavor to do so, and believe they were doing so, and still be involuntarily and unconsciously influenced thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must be remembered, also, that this test applies to the subject-matter of the inquiry, and not to the admissibility of the evidence offered in proof of it”
1 later decision 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.