Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2015
8 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 185th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Clewis v. State · Malik v. State · Solis 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]f it is shown on the trial of a felony offense other than a state jail felony punishable under Section 12.35(a) that the defendant has previously been finally convicted of two felony offenses, and' the second previous felony conviction is for an offense that occurred subsequent to the first previous conviction having become final, on conviction the defendant shall be punished by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life, or for any term of not more than 99 years or less than 25 years. A previous conviction for a state jail felony punishable under Section 12.35(a) may not be used for enhancement purposes under this section.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before the commission of the [primary offense], on March 31, 1987, in [cause number] 459182, in the 185th District Court of Harris County, Texas, the defendant was convicted of the felony of burglary of a habitation. Before the commission of the primary offense, and after the conviction in [cause number] 459182 was final, the defendant committed the felony of possession of a controlled substance and was finally convicted of that offense on February 5, 1993, in [cause number] 640970 in the 178th District Court of Harris County, Texas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magic v. State“[A] hypothetically correct jury charge must reflect the elements of a criminal offense as set out in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.