Williams v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 906 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2006
13 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wainwright v. Sykes · Solem v. Helm · Rummel v. Estelle · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reaffirmed our view that the Alabama statute [HFOA] is constitutional insofar as it augments sentences for a particular conviction because of past criminal convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. White
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.