Williamson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1982
6 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 Taylor v. State · Clemons 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`If you should find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that the defendant unlawfully, and with intent to kill the deceased, T.R. McCormic, inflicted injuries upon the deceased in the manner and by the means, as charged in either count of the indictment, and that at the time the deceased was suffering from some disease or malady, and an attack of such malady or disease was brought on by such injuries so unlawfully inflicted upon deceased by the defendant, if you find that the defendant did unlawfully, and with intent to kill, inflict injuries upon the deceased, and that the deceased died from such attack brought on by such injuries so inflicted, then the defendant would be guilty of the death of the deceased, even though the injuries may not have caused death if he had not been suffering from such disease or malady.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We find nothing in that portion of the charge complained of which, when taken with the entire charg given by the court, should either confuse or mislead the jury. Perhaps other language might have been chosen to express the same principles of law, but the language which was used was such as could be clearly understood and was not such as to be prejudicial to the defendant, and no reversible error appears to have occurred in the giving of the part of the charge complained of."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * in further finding that it was perpetrated by an act imminently dangerous to the person assaulted and that that act, to wit, the striking of an old man over the head with a walking stick and kicking him in the stomach, when perpetrated by a man in the bloom of youth and strength, evinced a depraved mind regardless of human life and even if there was not a premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.