275 So. 2d 405 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2010
16 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. Augustine
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a defendant is convicted of a felony, at least three days shall elapse between conviction and sentence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dickerson · State v. Cook“In the absence of a waiver by the defendant, a sentence imposed within the three-day period will be void under the settled jurisprudence of the state. In State v. George, 218 La. 18, 34 , 48 So.2d 265, 270 (1950), the court declared: “This provision [Art. 521 of the 1928 Code] is for the purpose of affording an opportunity to an accused who has been convicted to file, prior to sentence, further pleadings, such as a motion for a new trial, a motion in arrest of judgment, etc., and, if he is denied the right to this delay, any sentence so imposed is void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.