State v. Eames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

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

1. “An attempt is an inchoate offense. The crime of attempt is designed to punish certain activity which was not completed incipient criminal activity. It depends for its existence on a "specific intent to commit a crime." R.S. 14:27. If the definition of another crime includes the attempt to do something, the attempt statute, R.S. 14:27, cannot be employed, for then a defendant would be charged with an attempt to attempt to do an illegal act.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sloan · State v. Presley

2. “"There is no such thing as attempted conspiracy. The courts refuse to apply the principle of the inchoate crime of attempt to other inchoate crimes. Note, 9 La.L.Rev. 413 (1949)." 9 La.L.Rev. 413 was a case note on State ex rel. Clarence Duhon v. General Manager, Louisiana State Penitentiary, No. 39,091, July 20, 1948, in which this court approved without discussion the release on a writ of habeas corpus of one who had been convicted of attempted conspiracy without having filed a motion in arrest of judgment or having taken an appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sloan · 657 So. 2d 152 - State v. Campbell

3. “"... Dudley Patrick Beavers on or about the tenth (10th) day of January, 1972, committed the offense of rioting by participating, violating Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:329.1, 14:329.7, in that you participated in a riot which resulted in the deaths of Ralph Hancock and Dewayne Wilder against the provisions of La.R.S. 14:329.1 [and] 14:329.7. More specifically, the above violations occurred in that you willfully participated in a public disturbance involving you and others acting together and in concert by blocking the 1300 block of North Boulevard with parked vehicles and a line of human beings, involving you and others, across North Boulevard, thereby creating a confrontation with police authorities and physically attacking said authorities when they attempted to remove said obstructions causing a public disturbance from which the deaths of Ralph Hancock and Dewayne Wilder resulted, all in violation of the aforementioned provisions of law, and additionally, specifically in violation of the aforementioned provisions..."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 394 So. 2d 1218 - State v. Beavers