387 So. 2d 592 - State v. Skipper’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Foy (1983), Watermeier v. Watermeier (1985)
24 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 353 So. 2d 1005 - State v. Guillot · State v. Lee · 342 So. 2d 170 - State v. Noble · 346 So. 2d 686 - State v. O'BLANC · 338 So. 2d 654 - State v. Sharp
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Understanding, and not age, must determine whether any person tendered as a witness shall be sworn; but no child less than twelve years of age shall, over the objection either of the district attorney or of the defendant, be sworn as a witness, until the court is satisfied, after examination, that such child has sufficient understanding to be a witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“LSA-C.Cr.P. art. 611. Venue; trial where offense committed. UA11 trials shall take place in the parish where the offense has been committed, unless the venue is changed. If acts constituting an offense or if the elements of an offense occurred in more than one place, in or out of the parish or state, the offense is deemed to have been committed in any parish in this state in which any such act or element occurred. LSA-C.Cr.P. art. 612. Offenses on railway trains, vessel, aircraft, or other vehicle. If an offense is committed on a train, vessel, aircraft, or other public or private vehicle while in transit in this state and the exact place of the offense in this state cannot be established, the offense is deemed to have been committed in any parish through or over which the train, vessel, aircraft or other vehicle passed, and in which the crime could have been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wallis
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.