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← 210 La. 866 - State v. Williams

State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1978
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Smith · State v. Smith

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"From a review of the testimony taken on the trial of this case, all of which is reported verbatim in the record, we conclude that the state has failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt one of the elements of the crime charged, i.e., that the subject child was caused unjustifiable pain and suffering as the result of its neglect on the stated occasion."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “intentional. . .neglect . . . whereby unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.