Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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.

1. “[Tjhere may be a possibility that someone other than appellant got into the patrol car and placed the cocaine under the seat precisely where appellant subsequently sat, or that the officers had testified falsely and planted the cocaine in the car ... However, a rational factfinder could easily have found these possibilities not to be reasonable. Id. at 430 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilmore v. State

2. “The standard of review is whether any factfinder could rationally have excluded all reasonable doubt, not necessarily with all doubt ... An appellate court may not second-guess the finding at trial so long as some rational factfinder could conclude that any remaining doubts or outstanding hypotheses are not reasonable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henry v. State