451 So. 2d 1074 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
21 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 Adams v. Texas · Ballew v. Georgia · Burch v. State of Louisiana · Brown v. Louisiana · State v. Washington
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Art. 579. Interruption of time limitation "A. The period of limitation established by Article 578 shall be interrupted if: "(1) The defendant at any time, with the purpose to avoid detection, apprehension, or prosecution, flees from the state, is outside the state, or is absent from his usual place of abode within the state; or "(2) The defendant cannot be tried because of insanity or because his presence for trial cannot be obtained by legal process, or for any other cause beyond the control of the state; or "(3) The defendant fails to appear at any proceeding pursuant to actual notice, proof of which appears of record. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a defendant obtains a new trial ... the state must commence the second trial within one year from the date the new trial is granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A. Within fourteen days of rendition of the judgment of the supreme court or any appellate court, in term time or out, a party may apply to the appropriate court for a rehearing. The court may act upon the application at any time. B. A judgment rendered by the supreme court or other appellate court becomes final when the delay for applying for a rehearing has expired and no application therefor has been made. C. If an application for a rehearing has been made timely, a judgment of the appellate court becomes final when the application is denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.