State v. Lathers’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2012
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 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · 373 So. 2d 1307 - State v. Franks · 397 So. 2d 1287 - State v. Williams
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As stated in State v. Lathers , the reviewing court will "vacate a sentence and remand for resentencing in those instances in which the sentence is disproportionately severe when viewed in light of the offense committed and the reasons for such sentence do not appear in the record." 414 So.2d 678 at 680 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Forcible rape is a rape committed where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape. Whoever commits the crime of forcible rape shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than two nor more than forty years. At least two years of the sentence imposed shall be without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court need not articulate every aggravating and mitigating circumstance, but the record must reflect that the Court adequately considered the sentencing guidelines in particularizing the sentence to the defendant. See State v. Gray, 404 So.2d 1215 (La.1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sergon
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.