People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that California statute defining mental abnormality in terms almost identical to KSVPA implies serious difficulty in controlling behavior and adequately conveys Crane's requirements to the jury
• “[Crane] does not compel us to hold that further lack-of-control instructions or findings are necessary to support a commitment under [California’s Sexually Violent Predators Act].”
• Crane “does not compel us to hold that further lack-of-control instructions or findings are necessary to support a commitment under the SVPA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. McKee
  California Supreme Court· 2010-01-28· cited 299×
• People v. Krebs
  California Supreme Court· 2019-11-21· cited 125×
• Van Grinsven v. G.R.H.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2006-03-29· cited 91×
• People v. Howard N.
  California Supreme Court· 2005-02-24· cited 76×
• Moore v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2010-08-19· cited 67×
• People v. Zapisek
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-02-22· cited 59×
• McGee v. Bartow
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-01-27· cited 56×
• People v. Sumahit
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-04-08· cited 51×
• People v. Anthony C.
  California Court of Appeal· 2006-04-28· cited 48×
• People v. Lemanuel C.
  California Supreme Court· 2007-05-24· cited 45×
• People v. Carlin
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-04-26· cited 44×
• People v. Paniagua
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-09-20· cited 29×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-23· cited 22×
• People v. Calderon
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-06-27· cited 21×
• Richard S. v. Carpinello
  Second Circuit· 2009-12-15· cited 20×
• People v. Shields
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-09-21· cited 18×
• People v. Cuevas
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-01-28· cited 18×
• People v. White
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-09-19· cited 17×
• People v. Felix
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-12-16· cited 14×
• People v. Field
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-07-06· cited 14×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kansas v. Hendricks
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 2,057×
• Yates v. Evatt
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 932×
• Kansas v. Crane
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-22· cited 765×
• Cooley v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2003-01-15· cited 392×
• Hubbart v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1999-01-21· cited 324×
• People v. Superior Court (Ghilotti)
  California Supreme Court· 2002-04-25· cited 215×
• In Re the Commitment of W.Z.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-07-11· cited 155×
• Westerheide v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-17· cited 152×
• People v. Hurtado
  California Supreme Court· 2002-08-22· cited 119×
• People v. Roberge
  California Supreme Court· 2003-02-06· cited 115×
• In Re the Treatment & Care of Luckabaugh
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-07-22· cited 110×
• Care & Treatment of Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-05-14· cited 72×
• Dutil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-05-17· cited 62×
• In Re the Care & Treatment of Crane
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2000-07-14· cited 56×
• People v. Ward
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-04-21· cited 49×
• In Re Leon G.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2002-12-16· cited 43×
• People v. Swanson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-11-15· cited 37×
• Orient Handel v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-06-11· cited 25×
• In Re Detention of Isbell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-08-30· cited 24×
• In Re Detention of Barnes
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-01-23· cited 19×