Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2021
4 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 47 Cal. 3d 983 - People v. Edelbacher · 45 Cal. 3d 147 - People v. Heishman · Dorman v. State · Commonwealth v. Smith · United States v. Schuler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the challenged remark did not purport to disparage the legitimacy of any legal theory or defense asserted by Williams; rather, it was directed at the substance of Williams' testimony and amounted simply to an argument that Williams' version of events was not credible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State“go back to the jury room and look at the evidence, and talk about the testimony, and do your job and return guilty verdicts in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.