338 So. 2d 1376 - State v. Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably State v. Wilkerson (1981), 514 So. 2d 84 - State v. Comeaux (1987)
40 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · State v. Dotson · State v. Johnson · State v. Reese · 305 So. 2d 421 - State v. Hodgeson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither the coroner's testimony nor the certification of the coroner's report was required to prove the victim's death. That fact could be established by any competent evidence, and proof of death was made otherwise at this trial. Introduction of the coroner's report and the copy of the procés verbal of the autopsy was merely cumulative and added little to the proof of death. The defense objection is rendered even less valid by the fact that the trial judge permitted the jury to hear only those portions of the report which pertained to death, the cause of death and the time of death. La.Code Crim. Pro. art. 105; State v. Holmes, 258 La. 221 , 245 So.2d 107 (1971). * * * Any error which occurred by the State's failure to verify the report and the proces verbal by certification, or by the testimony of the Coroner, was not a substantial violation of a statutory or constitutional right. La.Code Crim. Pro. art. 921.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Article 105 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as we said in State v. Allen, 273 So.2d 504 (La.1973), "is designed primarily to provide the flow of information needed by the office of the district attorney in cases of apparent homicide . . . Non-compliance with its provisions has no bearing upon the requirements of due process."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any error which occurred by the State's failure to verify the report and the process verbal by certification, or by the testimony of the Coroner, was not a substantial violation of a statutory or constitutional right. La.Code Crim. Pro. art. 921.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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