State v. Driggers’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 625 So. 2d 146 - State v. Jackson (1993), 766 So. 2d 678 - State v. Ponsell (2000)
33 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 Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Baskett v. United States · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · Baker v. Wade · 412 So. 2d 507 - State v. Humphrey
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he continuity and consistency with which the other crimes occurred indicate a pattern of behavior and not merely one or two isolated incidents. The significance of the other crimes lies as much in what motivates defendant to act as in what occurred. His apparent tendency to partake in pedo-philic activities is of long standing and appears to be firmly entrenched.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“all evidence which tends to make it more probable than not that an individual committed a criminal offense is necessarily prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the act for which the defendant is on trial was not inadvertent, accidental, unintentional, or without guilty knowledge.”
2 later decisions 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.