McWilliams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2020
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wolfenbarger v. State · Dangerfield 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But an act or omission which is made punishable in different ways by different provisions of this code may be punished under either of such provisions, except that in cases specified in §§ 51 and 54, the punishments therein prescribed are substituted for those prescribed for a first offense, but in no case can he be punished under more than one; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. STATE v. GREENOUGH“Section 11 of Title 21 mandates that a crime be brought under specific statutory provisions rather than more general codifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. STATE v. GREENOUGH
How this case has been treated — in progress
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