State v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 305 So. 2d 916 - State v. Vince (1974), Bristow v. State (1966)
29 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 State v. Mattio · State v. Henry · State v. Dunn · State v. Ferrand · State v. Scarborough
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * While as a general rule evidence of one offense cannot be of fered in proof of another offense, this rule is subject to several well known exceptions, among them the one that permits the introduction of such evidence when it ‘tends to identify the accused as the perpetrator of the crime charged.’ State v. Hicks, 180 La. 281 , 156 So. 353 . See, also, State v. Johnson, 111 La. 935 , 36 So. 30 ; State v. Ferrand, 210 La. 394 , 27 So.2d 174 , 167 A.L.R. 559 , and State v. Mattio, 212 La. 284 , 31 So.2d 801 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reinhardt“the examination shall be limited to that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Washington
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.