337 So. 2d 475 - State v. McCarroll’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lewis v. United States (1996), 385 So. 2d 248 - State v. Byrd (1980)
114 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although the right to a jury trial may be waived in a non-capital case, Art. I, § 17 requires that the waiver be `knowingly and intelligently' made. Therefore, we must indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver of this, [sic] fundamental right." 337 So.2d at 480 .”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Davis · State v. Brual“"A case in which the punishment may be confinement at hard labor or confinement without hard labor for more than six months shall be tried before a jury of six persons, ...."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"A jury trial was also required in this case by the wording of our constitutional provision, supra, which hinges the right not upon the penalty carried by the particular charge for which an accused is tried, but upon the punishment which may be imposed in each case. La.Const. Art. I, § 17 (1974). Therefore, where two or more charges are joined for trial the right to a jury must be determined by the total punishment which may be imposed in that case."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.