State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “it may be raised for the first time on appeal. But the defendant has the burden of making the required showing of prejudice to the court. This requirement involves the identification of the constitutional error and how the error, in the context of the trial, affected the defendant's rights. It is the showing of actual prejudice that makes the error”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. SAW

2. “that will prevent the jury from hearing an involuntary confession. The rule's significant impact is that the trial judge resolves the issue of voluntariness in the absence of the jury and, thus, obviates due process problems that would arise where the jury hears an involuntary confession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. SAW

3. “[M]ost courts have held that there is no need for a separate voluntariness hearing in the case of a bench trial, reasoning that a judge is presumed to rely only upon admissible evidence in reaching a decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. SAW