State v. Seals’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1983
most recently cited
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The City Court had no jurisdiction under either penalty. La. Const. Art. 1, Sec. 17 provides for jury trial when penalty may be for more than six months. R.S. 13:1895 prohibits jury trials in city court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.