State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2001
12 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 340 So. 2d 1353 - State v. Frederick · 340 So. 2d 1339 - State v. Lee · 352 So. 2d 195 - State v. Jackson · State v. Clark
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n spite of the words that `it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally...' to do the prohibited acts, the statute requires no more than general criminal intent. LSA-R.S. 14:11. A distribution offense is a crime requiring only general criminal intent. Such intent is established by mere proof of voluntary distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, system was not relevant to prove any fact of consequence actually at issue herein (e. g., identity). Where system is not relevant for such purpose, the state is not permitted to prove other crimes in the guise of proving”
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.