State v. Swails’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably 375 So. 2d 80 - State v. Murray (1979), State v. Faciane (1957)
35 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. Genna · State v. Leming · State v. Eisenhardt · State v. Roberson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] non-expert witness, basing his testimony on facts and circumstances known to him, may be permitted to give opinion testimony touching upon the sanity or insanity of a person whose mental condition is at issue, provided the witnesses be shown to have had ample opportunity to observe the speech, manner, habits and conduct of such person." Wiley was working in the emergency room when Roux was brought in for treatment. The record indicates that she had the time and opportunity to observe his behavior, thus her testimony was proper.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The special charges submitted by appellant’s counsel were properly re-o fused, for they were not wholly correct and wholly pertinent to the case, as required by Article 390 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, LSA-R.S. 15 :390. They were not pertinent because the disposition of appellant following a verdict of not guilty was not an issue in the case and they were not wholly correct because counsel did not include in the requested charges certain cognate provisions of the mental health law, to wit, LSA-R.S. 28:56, 28:98 and 28:171.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rideau
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.