State v. Seals’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1997 · most notably 351 So. 2d 143 - State v. Muller (1977), Landry v. Hoepfner (1988)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · District of Columbia v. Clawans · Dore v. Tugwell · Hall v. Rosteet · State v. Page
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A defendant charged with a misdemeanor in which the punishment may be a fine in excess of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for more than six months shall be tried by a jury of six jurors, all of whom must concur to render a verdict."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Laws in pari materia are required to be construed together. Abercrombie v. Gilfoil, La.App., 205 So.2d 461 . `The Legislature is presumed to have enacted each statute with deliberation and with full knowledge of all existing laws on the same subject. The meaning and intent of a statutory provision, therefore, is to be determined by a consideration of the statute in its entirety and all other laws on the same subject matter, and a construction should be placed on the provision in question which is consistent with the express terms of the statute and with the obvious intent of the Legislature in enacting it. * * *' Legros v. Conner, La.App., 212 So.2d 177, 180 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The object of a court in construing a statute is to ascertain the legislative intent and interpret the laws so as to give them the connotation the lawmaker obviously intended and not to construe them so rigidly as to give them preposterous or odd meanings. Dore v. Tugwell, 228 La. 807 , 84 So.2d 199 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.