State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2000
4 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 404 So. 2d 1202 - State v. White · 368 So. 2d 711 - State v. Victor · State v. Lyles · 481 So. 2d 665 - State v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the merchandise was not removed from the store, or even from the general area in which it was kept, is not controlling. State v. Brown, 481 So.2d 665 (La.App. 1st Cir.1985), writ denied, 488 So.2d 198 (La.1986). The intent to permanently deprive may have been properly inferred from the facts and circumstances of defendant’s actions, including his use of a private door and flight from the store, his statements to the Bogalusa police officers admitting that he intended to take the merchandise, and his remarks to Ms. Cel-fau and Ms. Smith, evidencing guilty knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaidos“is defined as the exercise of wrongful dominion and a”
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.