Williford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2012
11 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wrenn v. Weinberger · United States v. Holland · United States v. Falu · 558 So. 2d 1 - Burch v. State · 545 So. 2d 279 - State v. Burch
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A dealer's lack of knowledge of his proximity to the schools does not make the illegal drug any less harmful to the youth in whose hands it may eventually come to rest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Polk v. State“(b) The offense is: [[Image here]] (2) a Class C felony if: [[Image here]] (B) The person: (i) Delivered [] [[Image here]] marijuana ... within one thousand (1,000) feet of school property....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[allthough it is incumbent upon the State to prove that a defendant knowingly or intentionally delivered marijuana in order to secure a conviction for dealing, the offense constitutes a Class C felony if the State shows that the delivery occurred within one thousand feet of school property, regardless of whether the defendant knew that he was within the 'drug-free zone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prewitt v. State
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.