479 So. 2d 605 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2012
3 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 385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd · 426 So. 2d 1323 - State v. Jones · 409 So. 2d 563 - State v. Green · State v. Walker · 450 So. 2d 714 - State v. Smith
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of an inherently harmless object in a manner that creates circumstances likely to produce death or great bodily harm results in the inherently harmless object being a dangerous weapon within the provisions of LSA-R.S. 14:2(3) and 14:64.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a highly charged atmosphere, conducive to violence, whether the pistol was loaded, workable or unworkable, or simply a toy.”
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.