People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · People v. Herrera · People v. Pozo · 5 Haw. App. 137 - Nani Koolau Co. v. K & M Construction, Inc. · Robles v. People
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except that, within ninety days after he has been placed in the custody of the department of corrections, the department shall transmit to the sentencing court a report on the evaluation and diagnosis of the violent offender, and the court, in a case which it considers to be exceptional and to involve unusual and extenuating circumstances, may thereupon modify the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Belgard
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.