State v. Crook’s Empirical Analysis

1969

Citation profile

100

cited by 100 later decisions

cited 2 times by the Supreme Court

states following

October 1986

most recently cited

94 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 100 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1986 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur (1973)

94 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Kemmler · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber · Rudolph v. Alabama · State v. Johnson

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

“Barbarous, extraordinary or grossly disproportionate to the offense. In short, the constitutional prohibition is directed to punishments that shock the conscience of civilized men. State v. Crook, 253 La. 961 , 221 So.2d 473, 476 (1969).”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Williams · State v. Billiot
“When knowledge or intent forms an essential part of the inquiry, testimony may be offered of such acts, conduct or declarations of the accused as tend to establish such knowledge or intent and where the offense is one of a system, evidence is admissible to prove the continuity of the offense, and the commission of similar offenses for the purpose of showing guilty knowledge and intent, but not to prove the offense charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 272 So. 2d 355 - State v. Washington · State v. Bradford
“... admissible for corroboration and to show the intent and licentious disposition of defendant....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Crook v. Henderson · 403 So. 2d 665 - State v. Acliese

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.