Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversible error for prosecution to tell jurors that if they should find defendant not guilty by reason of insanity he would be sent to an asylum and soon be released
• “Persons who have signed a petition, which has been filed with the board, have the right to take their names off at any time before final action by the board.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Teffeteller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-08-25· cited 75×
• Anton Vaughn Evalt v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1966-06-13· cited 59×
• Nowitzke v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-06· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Killelea
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-07-12· cited 53×
• Petion v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-10-21· cited 27×
• Daniels v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-03-15· cited 18×
• Zamot v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-10-16· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-01-19· cited 4×
• Validation of Lauderdale County v. Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 2×