846 So. 2d 709 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2020
1 federal appellate · 22 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 448 So. 2d 676 - State v. Captville · 661 So. 2d 442 - State v. Smith · United States v. Pennell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is ample jurisprudence to support the state's position. In one such case, cited by the state, State in the Interest of J.W., 597 So.2d 1056 (La.App. 2 Cir.1992), defendant, J.W., was convicted of possession of cocaine with the specific intent to distribute in violation of La. R.S. 40:967. The state was required to prove the identity of the drug as cocaine, an essential element of the charged offense. State in the Interest of J.W., 597 So.2d at 1058 (citing State v. James, 517 So.2d 291 (La.App. 1 Cir. 1987); State v. Guillory, 447 So.2d 1214 (La.App. 5 Cir.1984)). The state failed to produce a laboratory report or the results of a chemical test which would have proved the exact nature of the suspected contraband. The second circuit concluded that the evidence was thus insufficient to support an adjudication of delinquency on the basis that the defendant had committed the charged offense. Nevertheless, the court in J.W. went on to consider whether the evidence was sufficient to support a finding of attempted possession in the absence of scientific proof that a controlled dangerous substance was actually involved, i.e. without a chemical analysis of the substance. The court found that the evidence clearly showed that J.W. subjectively believed that the substance in his possession was cocaine, that the substance was packaged like cocaine, and that his statements following his arrest were evidence that he intended to distribute the substance. State in the Interest of J.W., ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object.”
1 later decision 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.