438 So. 2d 1156 - State v. Cotten’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 866 So. 2d 973 - State v. Washington (2004), State v. Cotten (1984)
2 federal appellate · 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 Brown v. Ohio · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · 414 So. 2d 741 - State v. Huizar
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Double jeopardy exists in a second trial only when the charge in that trial is: (1) Identical with or a different grade of the same offense for which the defendant was in jeopardy in the first trial, whether or not a responsive verdict could have been rendered in the first trial as to the charge in the second trial; or (2) Based on a part of a continuous offense for which offense the defendant was in jeopardy in the first trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the issue of his arrest record when defense counsel questioned defendant on direct examination about his previous arrest record. Defendant had denied on direct examination that he had ever been arrested. On cross-examination, defendant admitted had been arrested for driving without a license and use of an unauthorized movable vehicle. The court stated that the prosecution is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“the issue of his arrest record, evidence pertaining to such arrest was clearly admissible, in spite of the provisions of La. R.S. 15:495, on the question of defendant's credibility. Assuming that the State could not initially question defendant regarding his convictions for municipal offenses, it appears that defense counsel”
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.