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.

• It is a well-settled rule of statutory construction that penal statutes are strictly construed against the State and in favor of the defendant.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whitner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-10-27· cited 99×
• Browning v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-12-11· cited 62×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-01-08· cited 44×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-16· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-07-03· cited 17×
• State v. Prince
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-04-26· cited 13×
• State v. Dickinson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-02-22· cited 11×
• Rainey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-01-27· cited 6×
• State v. Gore
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-03-13· cited 4×
• State v. Fowler
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-03-18· cited 4×
• State v. Knuckles
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-01-28· cited 4×
• State v. Higgins
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-02-02· cited 3×
• State v. Bridgers
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-06-17· cited 2×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-02-13· cited 1×
• State v. Tony T. Sweet
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-08-20

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• State v. Cutler
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-03-18· cited 14×