State v. Rowan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In support of his motion in arrest the accused cites and relies on State v. Broussard, 233 La. 866 , 98 So.2d 218 . We do not find that it is controlling here. Therein the defendant was charged with having committed ‘simply burglary of Cagnina’s Bar, in the City of Crowley * * *.’ The holding was that the bill of information fell short of the requirements of the law since it ‘failed to describe or particularize the houseboat “or other structure, water craft, movable as the case may be” purportedly unlawfully entered, and to specify or designate to whom it belonged * * * ’. In so concluding we followed the reasoning of State v. McDonald et al., 178 La. 612 , 152 So. 308 , that it is the essence of the crime of burglary that there be an illegal entering of some place, house or structure, and that ‘The American Hat Company’ was not a place, house or structure. In the instant case, on the other hand, the information recites that the accused did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously break and enter the ‘store of J. J. Mayeaux’. Clearly this recitation connotes that a place or structure was illegally entered, and that it was owned by J. J. Mayeaux.””

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