State v. Major’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““They [the Attorney General and his assistants], or one of them, shall attend to, and have charge of all legal matters in which the State has an interest, or to which the State is a party, with power and authority to institute and prosecute or to intervene in any and all suits or other proceedings, civil or criminal, as they may deem necessary for the assertion or protection of the rights and interests of the State. They shall exercise supervision over the several district attorneys throughout the State, and perform all other duties imposed by law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ardoin

2. ““Subject to the supervision of the Attorney-General, as hereinafter provided [in Article 23], the District Attorney shall have entire charge and control of every criminal prosecution instituted or pending in any parish wherein he is district attorney, and shall determine whom, when, and how he shall prosecute; provided, that every district attorney shall have the right to employ or to accept the assistance in the conduct of any criminal case of such counsel as to him may seem fit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ardoin

3. ““Provided, further, that the Attorney •General shall have power to relieve, supplant and supersede the District Attorney ■in any criminal proceeding, when he may ■deem it necessary for the protection of the rights and interests of the State, with full ■power to institute and prosecute criminal proceedings, and the discretion of the Attorney General under this Article shall not be questioned or inquired into by any •court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ardoin