State v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that news coverage was too distant where the most recent article appeared within 3 months of trial
• approving jury instruction stating that defendant must have “reasonably believed that his use of deadly force was immediately necessary to protect him against serious bodily harm”
• defendant in criminal action failed to insist on ruling on challenge of juror for cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Gentry
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-01-25· cited 498×
• State v. Galindo
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2009-10-09· cited 186×
• State v. Dean
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2006-01-20· cited 157×
• State v. Fahlk
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-11-18· cited 67×
• State v. Phelps
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-10-16· cited 59×
• State v. Strohl
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-01-08· cited 51×
• State v. Leonor
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-02-01· cited 49×
• State v. McHenry
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1995-01-06· cited 31×
• State v. Bowen
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-09-17· cited 31×
• State v. Fitzgerald
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1992-10-27· cited 25×
• State v. Tucker
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-01-29· cited 18×
• State v. Farrell
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-03-12· cited 15×
• State v. Ford
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1993-03-16· cited 8×
• State v. Parks
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2025-09-05· cited 7×
• State v. Gatson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-09-24· cited 6×
• State v. Lopez
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2026-04-03· cited 5×
• State v. Alcorn
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-04-03· cited 4×
• State v. Halcomb
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1993-04-06· cited 2×
• State v. Farr
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1992-10-06

Cites

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

• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Patton v. Yount
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-26· cited 1,463×
• Rideau v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 1,211×
• Mu'Min v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 804×
• State v. Palmer
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-12-29· cited 217×
• United States v. Donald L. Martin and Judy S. Weems
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-08-24· cited 161×
• State v. Bradley
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-10-19· cited 115×
• United States v. Arturo De La Vega, Raimundo Betancourt, Ricardo Aleman, Mario Carballo and Osvaldo Coello
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-10-02· cited 107×
• State v. Nowicki
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1991-09-20· cited 86×
• State v. Boppre
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-03-30· cited 83×
• State v. Benzel
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1985-07-12· cited 74×
• State v. Jacobs
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1987-08-07· cited 72×
• State v. Red Kettle
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1991-10-25· cited 67×
• State v. Kern
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-12-05· cited 47×
• United States v. Clarence Allen Blackburn
  Sixth Circuit· 1968-02-10· cited 33×