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.

• “A mandatory presumption as to an element of a crime is unconstitutional because it conflicts with the defendant’s overriding presumption of innocence as to every element of the crime, and invades the jury’s fact-finding function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Smith
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2005-11-07· cited 17×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-04-04· cited 13×
• People v. Green
  Nassau County District Court· 1983-10-04· cited 7×
• Jackson v. Edwards
  E.D. New York· 2003-09-25· cited 4×
• People v. Jobson
  New York County Courts· 1983-07-11· cited 3×
• People v. Bradley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-01-16· cited 1×
• People v. Velazquez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-10-28

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Crimmins
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-02-25· cited 6,387×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• People v. Gray
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1979-12-14· cited 23×
• People v. Weeden
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-07-09· cited 7×
• People v. Jackson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1976-04-19· cited 5×
• People v. Baldwin
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1976-06-14· cited 5×