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310 So. 2d 908 - Lay v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably 445 So. 2d 798 - Williams v. State (1984), 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State (1989)

28 state decisions

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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 Chandler v. Warden Fretag · Strunk v. United States · 279 So. 2d 156 - Stringer v. State · Bryant v. State · Norman v. State

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

  1. “... if enhanced punishment is sought, the indictment or affidavit must include both the principal charge and a charge of previous convictions and both charges proved before punishment may be enhanced.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Bell v. State · Jordan v. State
  2. “[t]hese defects in the indictment were not waived even though Lay failed to demur to the indictment before trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Vince v. State · 378 So. 2d 635 - Usry v. State
  3. “[that John Lay, Jr.] did willfully, knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously sell, barter and transfer a controlled substance without authority of law, to-wit: Heroin, and that said John Lay, Jr. has previously been convicted in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 20, 1969 and July 15, 1969 for violation of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act of 1972, as amended....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Vince v. State

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.