Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Wade v. United States (1970), Edwards v. State (1974)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 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 California v. Curry · Bean v. State · People v. Hall · Mears v. State · State v. Lewis
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons are liable to punishment except those belonging to the following classes: 1. Children under the age of 8 years. 2. Children between the ages of 8 years and 14 years, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them they knew its wrongfulness. 3. Idiots. 4. Lunatics and persons who committed the act or made the omission charged in a state of insanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finger v. State“The doubt mentioned in NRS 178.405 means doubt in the mind of the trial court, rather than counsel or others. . . . A determination whether doubt exists rests largely within the discretion of the trial judge. ... If the court determines a doubt to exist, it must suspend the trial and inquire into the sanity of the accused. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baccari v. State“Intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the perpetration of the offense, and the sound mind and discretion of the person accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finger v. State
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.