State v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2012
6 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 State v. Comeaux · Ard v. Ard · 312 So. 2d 325 - State v. Broussard · State v. Williams
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unjustifiable pain and suffering” must be understood to mean something more than psychological harm resulting from the simple fact of separation of parent and child. The only evidence of pain and suffering in the record before us (and it is scant and speculative) shows rather minimal distress on the part of the child because of his mother’s absence. Because of the lack of evidence of these necessary elements of the offense charged, we find error in the trial court’s ruling on the motion to acquit. However, we do not hold that abandonment cannot be “neglect;” nor do we hold that psychological harm cannot be “unjustifiable pain and suffering. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant did not know of an institution that would help her child, although she had”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CSD“the Catholic church ... across the street from the park”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CSD
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.