State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2010
14 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 Ex Rel. Jackson v. Henderson · State Ex Rel. LeBlanc v. Henderson · 403 So. 2d 1157 - State v. Petterway · 375 So. 2d 1372 - State v. Holden · 342 So. 2d 630 - State v. Sepulvado
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On a conviction of a third offense, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary and regardless of whether the offense occurred before or after an earlier conviction, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than five years, and shall be fined two thousand dollars.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the witnesses against him, it would be the height of technicality to require that the word”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidences a clear intent by the Legislature that all prior DWI convictions be considered in determining the applicable penalty ... and that it is the number of prior convictions, not their sequence, which determines the appropriate designation of a subsequent offense.”
2 later decisions 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.