Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1997
10 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 Newberry v. State · Ryan v. State · Hobbs v. State · Boyington 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant contends that the evidence does not disclose that the act was willful or malicious. ‘Willful’ simply means intentional; ‘malicious’, as used in the statute, means nothing, more than that the wrongful act should be done voluntarily, unlawfully and without excuse or justification. United States v. Gunther, 5 Dak. 234 , 38 N. W. Rep. 79, 80 . We believe that the evidence clearly shows that the defendant did willfully and maliciously, without any excuse or justification, turn over the car, and thus injure it as alleged in the indictment, to an amount in excess of fifteen dollars.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State
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.