Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
December 2007
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · Williamson v. State · Coleman v. State · Jones v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the role of appellate counsel to carefully select and develop the legal issues to be presented to the court[; counsel need] not raise every non-frivolous issue conceivable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James 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.