448 So. 2d 1311 - State v. Tasker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 594 So. 2d 1 - State v. Batiste (1991), 584 So. 2d 356 - State v. Collins (1991)
1 federal appellate · 58 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 State v. Sepulvado · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff · 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan · State v. Smith
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a defendant's knowledge that illegal drugs are in the area; the defendant's relationship with the person found to be in actual possession; the defendant's access to the area where the drugs were found; the evidence of recent drug use by the defendant; the defendant's physical proximity to the drugs; and any evidence that the particular area was frequented by the drug users.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clay · State v. Cormier“(e)rror in the citation or its omission shall not be ground for dismissal of the indictment or for reversal of a conviction if the error or omission did not mislead the defendant to his prejudice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“, which should have instead been to LSA-R.S. 14:27 and 14:30.1. LSA C.Cr.P. art. 464 requires the inclusion in an indictment of the official citation of the statute a defendant is alleged to have violated. However, the article further provides that”
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.