Williams v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 28 · 1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2019
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Harris v. Oklahoma · Martin v. Maggio · United States v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conviction for attempted felony murder pursuant to Sec. 14:30(A)(1) [of the Louisiana first degree murder statute] would raise double jeopardy concerns, his conviction pursuant to Sec. 14:30(A)(3) for attempting to kill or inflict great bodily harm upon more than one person does not raise double jeopardy concerns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Whitley“intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Whitley
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.