471 So. 2d 1190 - State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2018
8 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 Abbott v. Parker · 407 So. 2d 685 - State v. Bruins · Arata v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District · 326 So. 2d 820 - State v. Maduell · 337 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Overton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the statute [R.S. 15:529.1], the State is authorized to charge a defendant as a multiple offender `If, at any time, either after the conviction or sentence, it shall appear that the person convicted of a felony' has previously been convicted of another felony. La. R.S. 15:529.1 D. It has been held that the language `at any time, either after the conviction or sentence' means what it says, but that the time for instituting multiple offender proceedings is not unlimited."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at any time, either after conviction or sentence”
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.