16 Utah 2d 139 - State v. Winters’s Empirical Analysis

1964

Citation profile

cited by 50 later decisions

states following

January 2013

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably State v. Brown (1972), State v. Vance (1979)

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on 164 Tex. Crim. 226 - Pelham v. State · 223 Cal. App. 2d 119 - People v. Aguilar · State v. Hunt · Peachie v. State · 10 Utah 2d 34 - State v. Ward

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[The] contention that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that, in order to convict, the amount of narcotic drug possessed must be found to be useable has no merit. The determinative test is possession of a narcotic drug, and not useability of a narcotic drug.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Warner
“In a prosecution for unlawful possession of narcotics the [State] must prove that the accused exercised dominion and control over the drug with knowledge of its presence and narcotic character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. C.P.B. v. State
“'get the stuff out of the mattress out of the bed behind the door' and flush it down the toilet before the officers [found] it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. C.P.B. v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.