340 So. 2d 205 - State v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 360 So. 2d 500 - State v. Drew (1978), 408 So. 2d 1229 - State v. Dupre (1982)
31 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Roberts v. Louisiana · State v. Shaffer
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to penalties. Defendant's contention is without merit because this Court reasoned in those cases that the legislature intended that a defendant be sentenced to the most serious penalty for the next lesser included offense at the time of the commission of the crime. ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NO. 4 Defendant alleges that the trial judge should have granted his motion for new trial because the verdict was contrary to the law and evidence because the rape victim failed to resist to the utmost. La.R.S. 14:42 defines aggravated rape as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“meaningful opportunity for consideration of mitigating factors presented by the circumstances of the particular crime or by the attributes of the individual offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burge v. Butler
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.