448 So. 2d 725 - State v. Jack’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2014
12 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 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 433 So. 2d 104 - State v. Square · 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee · 441 So. 2d 719 - State v. Soco · 389 So. 2d 1263 - State v. Douglas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All right. The court has read this articleread this presentence report and the gist of it is that Mr. Parker has five previous felony convictions. He has also juvenile records in Jefferson Parish as well as in Orleans Parish. The report indicates that he did or does take drugs and at the time of the incident involved in this case, he was also hung out on drugson alcohol. The court believes that this man is a threat to society. His past historyit's inconceivable that he can live peacefully in this society without violating the law. Therefore, because of his extensive past record and because of his great threat to society and because of hisunder Article 894.1, I think that his chances of rehabilitatingI haven't seen anything that are mitigating circumstances that are required to be enumerated, and none of them have been presented to me, the court is going to sentence Mr. Parker to serve a period in the Louisiana Department of Corrections at hard labor for a term of ninety-nine years without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of the execution of the sentence. And it's so ordered."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"This court does not lightly consider the matter of a 99-year sentence imposed without hope of release on parole. There may be sound arguments against the frequent use of such sentences, but these arguments address themselves to the reasoned discretion of the sentencing judge. The function of the reviewing court is not merely to substitute this court's judgment for that of the trial court, but to determine whether the court below manifestly abused its discretion. In this case we cannot find such abuse."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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