State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably State v. Nelsen (1975), State v. Helm (1980)
62 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Sherman · State v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. Ruffing v. Jameson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The record does not show that the question of constitutionality was raised below or that the information for that reason did not state criminal offenses. * * * An appeal brings only to this court for review errors committed by the trial court which appear in the record and have been preserved and presented in the manner prescribed by applicable procedural provisions." Citations omitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The sentencing judge exercises a broad discretion in determining the kind and extent of punishment to be imposed within limits fixed by statute and sentences within such limits are not reviewable on appeal.' "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodale · State v. Burke“"[T]he inducement of one to commit a crime not contemplated by him for the mere purpose of instituting criminal proceedings against him." State v. Williams, 1970, 84 S.D. 547, 551 , 173 N.W.2d 889, 891 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodroad · State v. Nelsen
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.