423 So. 2d 1048 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2015
22 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Holland v. United States · State v. Hoffer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Circumstantial evidence in Louisiana criminal convictions is held to a higher standard. R.S. 15:438 provides:”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shapiro · State v. Davis“A. Second degree murder is the killing of a human being: (1) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm; ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Hosford · State v. Grabert“the circumstantial evidence must be analyzed to determine whether it excludes every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Monds
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.