Williams v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 1492 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]eliability can be inferred without more in a case where the evidence falls within a firmly rooted hearsay exception.”
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.