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← 256 LA 459 - State v. Caston

State v. Caston’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 1977
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Maxwell v. Dow · State v. Schoonover

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

  1. ““ . . . Cases in which the punishment is necessarily at hard labor shall be tried by a jury composed of twelve jurors, nine of whom must concur to render a verdict.” . . .”
    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.