State v. Procell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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.

1. “"Section 1. It is the policy of this court that all litigants in Louisiana courts entitled to trial by jury shall have the right to grand, petit and civil juries selected at random from a fair cross-section of the parish wherein the district court convenes, that all qualified citizens shall have the opportunity to be considered for jury service in the district courts of Louisiana and shall have an obligation to serve as jurors when summoned for that purpose, and that no citizen shall be excluded from jury service in the district courts of Louisiana on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status. Adopted Oct. 24, 1974, effective Jan. 1, 1975. "Section 2. This court finds that the exemption of the following groups or occupational classes is in the public interest and, accordingly, members of such classes are exempt from jury service; (a) Public officers in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the Government of the United States, or the State, or any subdivision thereof, who are actively engaged in the performance of official duties; (b) Members in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States and members of the National Guard or this State while on active service; (c) Members of paid fire or police departments of the State or any subdivision thereof and federal law enforcement officers; (d) Members of the following groups when regularly and actively engaged in the practice of their professions: attorneys at law, ministers o”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reid · 444 So. 2d 1185 - State v. Jacko

2. “[C]ertain persons qualified to serve on juries are never given an opportunity to serve because the jury commissioners exclude their names from the general venire on the basis that they fall under exemption set out by the rule, a rule which allows them, if they choose, to serve notwithstanding the claimable exemption. This exclusion clearly contravenes the letter and spirit of the law. It means that the general venire is not selected impartially, as our constitution and statutes require ...”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. State · 728 So. 2d 1075 - Page v. Siemens Energy and Automation

3. “Every person charged with a crime . . . is entitled to [an]. . . impartial trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 344 So. 2d 1380 - State v. Daigle · 444 So. 2d 1185 - State v. Jacko