561 So. 2d 808 - State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2015
17 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 Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · State v. Hogan · State v. Edwards
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before the Court for sentencing is a 24 year old male who entered a plea of guilty on July 17, 1991 to the offense of Armed Robbery in violation of LSA— R.S. 14:64. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered and the report reviewed by the Court in light of the sentencing provisions of C.Cr.P. Art. 894.1 to arrive at the sentence imposed herein. The defendant entered his plea of guilty to the May 7, 1989 robbery of Peoples State Bank while armed with a small caliber semi-automatic pistol. While the identity of the other perpetrator in this offense is still judicially undetermined, it is clear that the defendant herein held Ira Joe Key and Ruth Conley at gunpoint while the other assailant gathered the cash amounting to approximately $6,500.00. Of particular note in the pre-sentence report is the fact that although this defendant is technically classified as a first-felony offender, at the time of his arrest on May 8, 1990, the defendant was serving a 20-year hard labor sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections for another bank robbery. The pre-sentence investigation report notes that this defendant has no legitimate affiliation to the area in Texas where he was residing at the time of the perpetration of these armed robberies. Further, the defendant’s only legitimate employment was his term of service in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1988. The defendant has no dependents or anyone else who is depending upon him for support. Consequently, the sentence imposed herein will not wo”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haislip“Art. 680. Grounds for recusation of district attorney A district attorney shall be recused when he: (1) Has a personal interest in the cause or grand jury proceeding which is in conflict ivith fair and impartial administration of justice; ... (2) Is related to the party accused or to the party injured, or to the spouse of the accused or party injured, or to a party who is a focus of a grand jury investigationj^to such an extent that it may appreciably influence him in the performance of the duties of his office ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere presence of a victim's relative in the district attorney's office does not support a finding of recusal.”
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.