Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State · McClain v. State · 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for a new trial is addressed to the discretion of the trial court, and such motion should be considered with caution. The power to grant a new trial should be invoked only in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict. [Appellate courts] must weigh the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict and must therefore look at the evidence in the light most favorable to the State’s theory of the case. [Appellate courts] will disturb the verdict only when it is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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