State v. Rugon’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2011
13 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 Shore v. Edmisten · McHugh v. Placid Oil Co. · State v. Price · State v. Rugon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“$200 to the Judicial Administrator of the Criminal District Court for the Appellate Process Support and Court Programs Fund. The State objected that ordering defendant to pay to this fund was in direct contravention of La. R.S. 15:571.11(D) which, at that time, provided that all fines and forfeitures imposed in criminal cases in Orleans Parish be paid to the Orleans Parish District Attorney, who could use the funds at his discretion for the operations of criminal district court and his office. The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was a fine, subject to the legislative mandate of La. R.S. 15:571.11(D) that it be paid to the Orleans Parish District Attorney. The court annulled the sentence insofar as it ordered that the payment of the fine be made to the Judicial Administrator, and remanded the case for correction of the sentence by making the fine payable to the District Attorney. In the instant case, it appears that the only parties adversely affected by the trial court's order that the payment of the $1,000 be to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... a fine is a pecuniary exaction, imposed as a punishment for violation of the law, and collectible by proceedings of public authority either Criminal or Civil in form....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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