Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Toney v. Gammon (1996), State v. Burgess (1990)
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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Toney · Adams v. State · State v. Webb · State v. Talbert
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Multiple sentences of imprisonment shall run concurrently unless the court specifies that they shall run consecutively; except that, in the case of multiple sentences of imprisonment imposed for the felony of rape, forcible rape, sodomy, forcible sodomy or an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid and for other offenses committed during or at the same time as that rape, forcible rape, sodomy, forcible sodomy or an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid, the sentences of imprisonment imposed for the other offenses may run concurrently, but the sentence of imprisonment imposed for the felony of rape, forcible rape, sodomy, forcible sodomy or an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid shall run consecutively to the other sentences.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he statute establishes two kinds of offenses for sentencing purposes-the listed offenses and 'other offenses.' It states clearly what the court must do if the defendant is convicted of an offense in each class.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tillitt · Parker v. State“[w]e cannot say that the judge might not have pronounced a less severe sentence if he thought he had discretion to do so,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tillitt
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.