State v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Roberts v. City of Baton Rouge · Conley v. City of Shreveport · 337 So. 2d 1131 - State v. Sanders · 332 So. 2d 777 - Traigle v. PPG Industries, Inc. · State v. Montgomery
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion, our lawmakers did not intend that individuals be subjected to enhanced punishment, including to the penitentiary, when at the time the offense was committed, the offender was subject only to fine or minor imprisonment. Consonant with the general purpose of enhanced punishment status, the most reasonable legislative intent to ascribe to the more serious punishment accorded for a subsequent ‘conviction’ by La.R.S. 14:98 is that, if following conviction of the offense, the offender repeats the prohibited conduct, he is then subject to enhanced penalty — but not if after the first conviction has put him on notice of the possibility of more severe punishment, the offender takes heed and reforms.” (emphasis supplied)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Traditional American principles of criminal responsibility of an individual for his conduct do not permit the state to convert a formal charge against him for a less serious offense, into a charge for a more serious offense, on the legal basis of a change of status or other incident which occurs after the initial offense charged...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woods · Gargliano v. State“that the offender shall be deemed a second offender only if the crime resulting in the second conviction shall have been committed after his first conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin · State v. Woods
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.