State v. Guidry’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2003
16 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 391 So. 2d 813 - State v. Devito · 377 So. 2d 1234 - City of Baton Rouge v. Wheat · State v. Alexander
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant files a motion to quash or other preliminary plea, the running of the periods of limitation established by Article 578 shall be suspended until the ruling of the court thereon; but in no case shall the state have less than one year after the ruling to commence the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, no trial shall be commenced: * * * * (2) In other felony cases after two years from the date of institution of the prosecution; and * * * * The offense charged shall determine the applicable limitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no trial shall be commenced ... after two years from the date of institution of the prosecution....”
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.