State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2023
22 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 South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · Preston v. United States · Rideout v. United States · Cole v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could the impoundment be characterized as necessary because the car was a traffic hazard, or because it was violating a parking ordinance[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom“The possible use of the vehicle as evidence of the crime ... supplies the necessary nexus between the arrest and the reason for impounding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Byrom“there must be some nexus between the arrest and the reason for impounding, [although] that nexus need only be reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boswell
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.