State v. Ester’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2013
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Roviaro v. United States · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · Alexander v. Virginia · State v. Dotson
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.
“"... when the pattern of two offenses is so identical, the system exception applies if identity of the defendant as the perpetrator is a crucial issue. State v. Banks, 307 So.2d 594 (La.1975). Identity of George Ester was conceded to be the only real issue ... Where identity is genuinely at issue, system evidence has relevance independent of the defendant's criminal propensity and should be admitted with the other test of admissibility. State v. Hatcher, 372 So.2d 1024 (La. 1979)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“La.R.S. 15:446 provides that: "When knowledge or intent forms an essential part of the inquiry, testimony may be offered of such acts, conduct or declarations of the accused as tend to establish such knowledge or intent and where the offense is one of a system, evidence is admissible to prove the continuity of the offense, and the commission of similar offenses for the purpose of showing guilty knowledge and intent, but not to prove the offense charged."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... evidence of that other crime would have been so relevant to the critical issue of his identity as the perpetrator of this crime that the probative value of the other crime would outweigh its prejudicial effect...." State v. Ester, supra, at 546 .”
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.