357 So. 2d 1121 - State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably State v. Duncan (1982), 494 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Rogers (1986)
35 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. Dotson · 305 So. 2d 514 - State v. James · 326 So. 2d 820 - State v. Maduell · 337 So. 2d 1131 - State v. Sanders · 308 So. 2d 752 - State v. McQueen
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By statute, the district attorney is accorded wide discretion in determining when and how he shall prosecute. LSA-C.Cr.P. art. 61. When more than one provision of the law applies, the district attorney has the discretion to elect which of the provisions to invoke. See, e.g., LSA-R.S. 14:4. We discern no reason why this discretion should not apply to the use of the multiple offender procedures as long as the same offense is not used twice to enhance the penalty. See State v. Cox, 344 So.2d 1024 (La.1977); State v. Sanders, 337 So.2d 1131 (La.1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person convicted of any offense under this part [the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law] if the offense is a second or subsequent offense, shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment that is twice that otherwise authorized or to payment of a fine that is twice that otherwise authorized, or both.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]ence, the prior offense could not be used to enhance the penalty under La. R.S. 40:982.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipper
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.