State v. Basco’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1977
12 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 Barber v. United States · State v. Scott · State v. Sample · State v. Fahey · State v. Washington
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether or not an overt act has been proven is a question to be decided by the court and the court can disregard any testimony that it deems unworthy of belief. State v. Washington, 184 La. 544 , 166 So. 669 . The trial judge has a wide discretion in deciding whether an overt act has been committed. State v. Scott, 198 La. 162 , 3 So.2d 545 .” “And, in the interpretation of the provision, this court has held that proof of such overt act or hostile demonstration must be made to the satisfaction of the trial judge, who is vested with wide discretion in the matter, before the accused may introduce any evidence of prior altercations with or the dangerous character of his adversary. State v. Scarbrock, 176 La. 48 , 145 So. 264 ; State v. Boudreaux, 185 La. 434 , 169 So. 459 ; State v. Scott, 198 La. 162 , 3 So.2d 545 ; State v. Malmay, 209 La. 476 , 24 So.2d 869 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Terry
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.