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.

• “ ‘ “Where the record is silent on appeal, it will be presumed that what ought to have been done was not only done, but rightly done.” ’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 48×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-02-17· cited 43×
• Hosch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 23×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-08-30· cited 11×
• Scheuing v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 9×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-12-14· cited 9×
• Wimbley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-12-19· cited 7×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2011-06-17· cited 5×
• Lockhart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-08-30· cited 4×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-08-14· cited 4×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-09-30· cited 2×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2015-02-13· cited 1×
• Bennison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-03-29
• Richard Daron Kennedy v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2026-03-27

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Ex Parte Branch
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-12-04· cited 578×
• Cumbo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-12-19· cited 507×
• Faircloth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-07-17· cited 362×
• Ex Parte Cumbo
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-04-06· cited 303×
• Ex Parte Bird
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-12-06· cited 258×
• Bankston v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-04-07· cited 241×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1969-03-13· cited 220×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-10-31· cited 185×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-01-19· cited 176×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 162×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 144×
• Temple v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-12-19· cited 132×
• Nobis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-03-31· cited 130×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-03-31· cited 130×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-02-12· cited 130×
• Ex Parte Smith
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-04-18· cited 129×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-12-01· cited 126×