491 So. 2d 42 - State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 575 So. 2d 848 - State v. Munoz (1991), 722 So. 2d 1097 - State v. Rainey (1998)
43 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Patterson v. New York · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... In determining whether or not a sentence was excessive, the Louisiana Supreme Court held in State v. Bonanno, 384 So.2d 355, 358 (La.1980) that: "[a]s stated previously, to determine whether a certain penalty is excessive we must determine whether that penalty is grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime. State v. Goode, [ 380 So.2d 1361 (La.1980) ] supra. To determine whether the penalty is grossly disproportionate to the crime we must consider the punishment and the crime in light of the harm to society caused by its commission and determine whether the penalty is so disproportionate to the crime committed as to shock our sense of justice. State v. Beavers, 382 So.2d 943 (La.1980)." Absent a sentence that shocks our sense of justice, the trial judge is given great discretion in the imposing of sentences. State v. Lanclos, 419 So.2d 475 (La.1982). "Absent a manifest abuse of that discretion the sentence imposed by a trial judge should not be set aside as excessive." Id. at 478 ."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wischer · State v. Darby“There is apparently no Louisiana jurisprudence distinguishing the burdens of persuasion applicable to self-defense in homicide and non-homicide situations. The burden of persuasion in proving self-defense in a non-homicide situation pursuant to La.R.S. 14:19, which entails a subjective as well as an objective inquiry, could arguably, in fairness to the State, be upon the defendant, since a subjective inquiry is involved. [Footnote omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.