State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2016
10 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 535 So. 2d 1024 - State v. Madison · 580 So. 2d 448 - State v. Williams · 544 So. 2d 32 - State v. Bell · State v. Valery
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“|7In this case, the only evidence presented by the State concerning the value of the stolen car was the testimony of Mary Petty, the car owner, who testified that she had purchased the 1982[sic] Cadillac car in 1980 for $25,200. She also indicated that she had some unspecified maintenance problems with the car and that she intended to trade it in. When the car was recovered, it had a dent on the left front side and a hole in the steering column. The State failed to introduce any photographs, estimates, original bill of sale or testimony to indicate the value of the car at the time of the theft. Thus, the State presented no trustworthy evidence of any kind to indicate the car’s worth. The State points out that the cases cited by the defendant involved property “other than an automobile,” apparently asking this court to fashion a rule requiring a different type of proof depending on the type of property stolen. We decline to do so. The important issue is the quality of the evidence presented. Courts traditionally require that the value of stolen property be proved through the introduction of something more than the testimony of the owner, such as photographs, direct evidence, receipts, or the objects themselves. See State v. Coleman, 590 So.2d 844 (La.App. 4th Cir.1991) (direct evidence); State v. Williams, 580 So.2d 448 (La.App. 5th Cir.1991) (price tags); State v. Armstead, 572 So.2d 762 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1990) (photographs); State v. Elie, 567 So.2d 180 (La.App. 4th Cir.1990”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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