Winters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2026
7 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 Leary v. United States · United States v. Rothberg · United States v. Moore · United States v. Gaines · Doyle v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore the opinion of this Court that the term ‘cannabis sativa L.’ used in defining marijuana in Section 2-101(19) of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act includes all forms, varieties, and species, heretofore or hereinafter classified, of the plant genus cannabis. Once the State proves that the substance in question is a proscribed portion of the plant cannabis and further proves that the substance tests positive for tetrahy-docannabinol (THC) then it has met its burden of proof. . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“includes all forms, varieties, and species of the plant genus”
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.