Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Vinson (1975), State v. Bowden (1944)
30 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 Bynum v. State · Carter 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The third assignment of error is directed to the proof to establish the previous chaste character of the prosecuting witness. “The law is well settled in this state that this essential element of the offense must be proven and not presumed, and in requiring that this allegation of the indictment be proven, the statute means personal chastity — actual character, not reputation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“means actual contact of the sexual organs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.