337 So. 2d 192 - State v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably State v. Smith (2000), 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew (1978)
38 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Levin v. Gulotta · Doe v. Commonwealth's Atty. for City of Richmond · State v. Poe · 315 So. 2d 749 - State v. Bluain
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] lesser offense is included in the charge of the greater offense if all of the elements of the lesser crime are included in the definition of the greater offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Although the bill of information did not give the exact dates of any offenses, it set forth periods of times during which the offenses occurred, e.g., October 19, 1973 through April 5, 1974, December 1975, April 1976. The defense filed a motion for bill of particulars requesting the precise dates of the offenses. In response, the State reiterated dates already given in the bill of information and stated that it did not have more definite dates. Thereafter, the defense filed a supplemental motion for bill of particulars asking which offenses grew out of the same transaction. The State answered, grouping those offenses which occurred ‘on the same day at approximately the same time.’ The judge found the State’s answers to both motions ‘good and sufficient in law.’ ” “Testimony and evidence at trial narrowed some of the periods of time during which the offenses occurred. However, during trial, the State amended the bill of information and the answers to the bill of particulars to reflect the evidence at trial. Thus, count eight, which the State had alleged occurred in April, 1975, was amended to state that it occurred between April and June of 1975. “Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 468 provides that the ‘date or time of the commission of the offense need not be alleged in the indictment, unless the date or time is essential to the offense.’ The State charged the defendant with unnatural carnal copulation when the victim was under the age of seventeen and the defenda”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Piazza“Res gestae are events speaking for themselves under the immediate pressure of the occurrence, through the instructive, impulsive and spontaneous words and acts of the participants, and not the words of the participants when narrating the events. What forms any part of the res gestae is always admissible in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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