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← 213 La. 338 - State v. Broussard

State v. Broussard’s Empirical Analysis

1948

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
3
states following
June 2013
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 893 So. 2d 7 - State v. Williams (2004), 639 So. 2d 237 - State v. Smith (1994)

4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions

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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. Davis · State v. Bonner · State v. Ambrose

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

  1. “such unreasonable technicality as to defeat the purpose of all rules of statutory construction, which purpose is to ascertain and enforce the true meaning and intent of the statute.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 879 So. 2d 1276 - State v. Brown · 816 So. 2d 1272 - State v. Everett
  2. “that the statute shall not be applicable where a period of five years has intervened between the date of the commission of the current or latest felony and the expiration of the sentence imposed for the next previous felony conviction.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 639 So. 2d 458 - State v. Gaines · 637 So. 2d 709 - State v. Richardson
  3. “"C. This Section shall not be applicable in cases where more than five years have elapsed since the expiration of the maximum sentence, or sentences, of the previous conviction, or convictions, and the time of the commission of the last felony for which he has been convicted. In computing the period of time as provided herein, any period of servitude by a person in a penal institution, within or without the state, shall not be included in the computation of any of said five year periods."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 338 So. 2d 665 - State v. Badon · 816 So. 2d 1272 - State v. Everett

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.