529 So. 2d 459 - State v. Converse’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2009
1 federal appellate · 18 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 436 So. 2d 475 - State v. Kahey · 439 So. 2d 1099 - State v. Korman · 319 So. 2d 396 - State v. Cann · State v. Edwards · State v. Morgan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless there is a provision to the contrary in the definition of a crime, reasonable ignorance of fact or mistake of fact which precludes the presence of any mental element required in that crime is a defense to any prosecution for that crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“La.R.S. 14:402 does not require the presence of either general or specific criminal intent; rather, the possession of contraband in a penal institution is criminal per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[h]owever, the definition of contraband is not restricted to those articles set forth hereinabove,”
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.