State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2017
14 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Lockhart v. McCree · Cage v. Louisiana · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant has no burden on the issue of self-defense. Once the issue of self-defense has been raised, from whatever source, the burden rests on the State as an element of conviction to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the homicide was not justiñed. Thus it was not error for the trial court to submit the self-defense instruction over Defendant’s objections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cummings
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.