Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “limited to material defects which are apparent on the face of the record; which are basic, serious and fundamental in their character, and which clearly deprive an accused of a substantial right, or which clearly show manifest injustice.”

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

2. “Under a harmless error analysis, '[t]he defendant has the initial burden of demonstrating error,' and then the State has the burden to demonstrate that any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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