State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2010
11 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 State v. Cabbage · State v. Grace · Liakas v. State · State v. Tuggle · State v. Ashby
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike the cited authority, this case involves one particular offense occurring during one criminal event. Problems with a unanimous jury verdict generally arise when the State fails to elect among different offenses. Here the State properly elected to seek a conviction of aggravated rape by serious bodily injury. The trial judge instructed the jury on the elements of this offense, and found the evidence to warrant a further instruction on criminal responsibility for another, and for criminal responsibility relative to the elements of aggravated rape. The jury reached a verdict based on one set of facts relating to the one incident of rape. We conclude that the Defendant’s constitutional right to a unanimous jury verdict was not violated by the court’s instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hodges“The rationale underlying the hearsay exception for statements made for purposes of medical diagnosis and treatment is that the declarant’s motive of obtaining improved health increases the statements’s reliability and trustworthiness. This motivation is considered stronger than the motivation to lie or shade the truth. Patients generally go to doctors to receive treatment, and treatment usually depends, in part, on what is said; thus the declarant has a self-interested motive to tell the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spratt“(5) The defendant treated ... a victim ... with exceptional cruelty during the commission of the offense; (6) The personal injuries inflicted upon ... the victim [were] particularly great; (7) The offense involved a victim and was committed to gratify the defendant’s desire for pleasure or excitement; (12) During the commission of the [rape], the defendant willfully inflicted bodily injury upon another person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arnett
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.