State v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1983 · most notably State v. Harrison (1970), Fields v. State (1971)
27 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 United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Andrews v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . It is not essential for a conviction that a positive identification be made of the accused. It is sufficient if the witnesses testify that in their belief, opinion or judgment the person accused is the person who ■ perpetrated the crime and want of positiveness goes only to the weight of the testimony. . . .””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ortiz · State v. Harrison
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.