State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

186

cited by 186 later decisions

states following

February 2026

most recently cited

186 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 158 Ohio App. 3d 31 - State v. Woullard (2004), 181 Ohio App. 3d 563 - State v. Clay (2009)

186 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 Felton v. Felton · Commerce & Industry Insurance v. City of Toledo · 105 Ohio App. 3d 679 - State v. Miller · 47 Cal. App. 4th 207 - O'KANE v. Irvine · 205 Cal. App. 3d 993 - People v. Holifield

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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“(1) sharing of familial or financial responsibilities and (2) consortium.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Wallace, Unpublished Decision (11-6-2006) · Coe v. Coe, Unpublished Decision (7-21-2004)
“a person who * * * is cohabitating with the offender, or who otherwise has cohabitated with the offender within five years prior to the date of the alleged commission of the act in question.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. McGrath, Unpublished Decision (9-13-2007) · State v. Rodriguez, Unpublished Decision (6-30-2006)
“means any of the following: (a) Any of the following who is residing or has resided with the offender: (i) A spouse, a person living as a spouse, or a former spouse of the offender; {¶ 31} In support of its position, the State cites State v. Williams (1997), 79 Ohio St.3d 459 , 683 N.E.2d 1126 . In Williams , the Supreme Court of Ohio defined”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Wallace, Unpublished Decision (11-6-2006) · State v. Douglas, Unpublished Decision (5-11-2006)

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.