State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2015
9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 273rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Cain v. Bain · State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne · Gee v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. · Mancorp, Inc. v. CULPEPPEER
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to the condition of the roadway, the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation was negligent if: a. The obstruction caused an unreasonable risk of harm, and b. The State Department of Highways and Public Transportation knew, or should have known, of the obstruction, and c. The State Department of Highways and Public Transportation failed to adequately warn Terry Williams of the condition or to make the condition reasonably safe, and d. Terry Williams did not have knowledge of the condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.