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359 So. 2d 95 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
January 2007
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 404 So. 2d 466 - State v. Lindsey (1981), 704 So. 2d 756 - State v. Koon (1997)

26 state decisions

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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. Matthews · State v. Rideau · State v. Johnson · 332 So. 2d 270 - State v. Johanson · 337 So. 2d 182 - State v. Breaux

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Louisiana is among the minority of eleven states that still reject the defense in all aspects. In Louisiana, a mental defect or disorder, short of legal insanity (i.e., the incapability to distinguish between right and wrong, La.R.S. 14:14), cannot serve to negate the specific intent and reduce the degree of the crime. State v. Johanson, 332 So.2d 270 (La.1976); State v. Berry, 324 So.2d 822 (La.1975); State v. Rideau, 249 La. 1111 , 193 So.2d 264 (1966)."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “neurotic, prone-to-hysteria mental condition precluded the specific intent required for murder. . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.