Winters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2000
4 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 · Brown v. Illinois · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Harrison v. United States · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present law, which states that a ‘gift’ of marijuana may be considered a ‘sale’ in certain instances has never been nor was ever intended to be applied to cases where small amounts of marijuana have been transferred with no present or future profit motive in mind, and the Committee believes that no specific amendment to the law [AS 17.12.110] is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. State“Acts prohibited. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for a person to manufacture, compound, counterfeit, possess, have under his control, sell, prescribe, administer, dispense, give, barter, supply or distribute in any manner, a depressant, hallucinogenic or stimulant drug.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright 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.