State v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 1976 · most notably State v. Square (1971), State v. Vinson (1975)
68 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 State v. Henry · State v. Thornhill · State v. Messer · State v. McCoy · State v. Boone
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the district attorney had gone no further than to ask the veniremen whether, in case they were convinced from the evidence that the accused was guilty of the charge brought against her, they could render a verdict which would carry with it the death penalty without offending their conscience, defendant's complaint would have no merit. But it was highly improper for him to go further and ask them whether under like circumstances they would render such a verdict. By answering that question in the affirmative, as each of the jurors did, according to the record, the jurors, in effect, committed themselves in advance to the proposition that, if after hearing the evidence they were convinced that the defendant was guilty of the crime of murder and if in their opinion there were no mitigating circumstances entitling her to a qualified verdict, `or mercy', they would render a verdict carrying with it capital punishment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“? In Henry the State's questions which were found to constitute reversible error were designed to commit the jurors in advance to reach a certain verdict if the testimony convinced them that the accused was guilty of the crime of murder. The court held that although the State was entitled to determine whether a juror could render a verdict which would carry the death penalty, it was highly improper to ask jurors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In all capital cases the jury may qualify its verdict of guilty with the addition of ‘without capital punishment,’ in which case the punishment shall be imprisonment at hard labor for life.” State v. Henry, 197 La. 999 , 3 So.2d 104 .”
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.