Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Williams v. Illinois · United States v. Earley · Hicklin v. State · Jackson 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessarily enjoys wide discretion in the exceedingly difficult obligation of determining appropriate penalties for the myriad of situations and individuals which come before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hart v. State“The discretion of the trial court is also limited by the fact that a sentencing court may only impose those sentences that have been authorized by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cothren 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.