State v. Fontenot’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably 720 So. 2d 724 - State v. Lambert (1998), 440 So. 2d 1330 - State v. Allen (1983)
36 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 Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · 387 So. 2d 1175 - State v. Steele · State v. Didier · State v. Doughty
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... In order to convict a defendant of negligent homicide, however, the state must prove (1) that defendant was criminally negligent, i.e., that there was such disregard of the interest of others that the offender's conduct amounted to a gross deviation below the standard of care expected to be maintained by a reasonably careful man under like circumstances; and (2) that a killing resulted from this conduct...." State v. Fontenot, 408 So.2d 919, 921 (La.1981).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. The crime of operating a vehicle while intoxicated is the operating of any motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel or other means of conveyance while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, narcotic drugs, central nervous system stimulants, hallucinogenic drugs or barbiturates.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]hat one MARK C. HALL late of the Parish of St. Tammany, on the 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven, in the Parish of St. Tammany, aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the Twenty-second Judicial District Court of Louisiana, for the Parish of St. Tammany: Unlawfully did operate a motor vehicle on a public highway while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, in violation of R.S. 14:98, And now, the District Attorney informs this Honorable Court that this is a third offense, the defendant having previously pled guilty of operating a motor vehicle on a public highway while under the influence of alcoholic beverages on the 8th day of June, 1983, in the Monroe City Court, # 3644, And further having pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle on a public highway while under the influence of alcoholic beverages on the 2nd day of August, 1982, in the Monroe City Court, # 1897, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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