State v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
509 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 509 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall (1988), State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King (1983)
509 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 · Holloway v. United States · State v. Abercrombie · 375 So. 2d 1165 - State v. Mathews · State v. Landry
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 509 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Forcible rape is a rape committed where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape."”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the case before us, defendant asks that we evaluate the credibility of the witnesses and overturn the trial court on its factual determination of guilt. This is not the function of the court on appeal. La. Const. Art. 5, Sec. 5(C) ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This standard, which was adopted by the legislature in enacting La.C.Cr.P. art. 821, pertaining to postverdict motions for acquittal based on insufficiency of evidence, is that the court must determine that the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, was insufficient to convince a rational trier of fact that all of the elements of the crime had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.