576 So. 2d 1048 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · McDougall v. North Carolina
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.
“The defendant’s mental incapacity to proceed may be raised at any time by the defense, the district attorney, or the court. When the question of the defendant’s mental incapacity to proceed is raised, there shall be no further steps in the criminal prosecution, except the institution of prosecution, until the defendant is found to have the mental capacity to proceed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a party calls...a witness identified with an adverse party, interrogation may be by leading questions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We also note that further proceedings in the prosecution were conducted in the interim between the appointment of the sanity commission (March 13) and the ruling that the defendant had the capaci ty to proceed to trial (May 3). See La.C.Cr.P. art. 642. On April 4, 1989, the motion to suppress hearing was resumed and one defense witness testified. Thereafter, the motion to suppress was again continued. On the same date, the State amended the indictment from first degree murder to second degree murder, and the trial court fixed bond. On May 3, before ruling on the defendant’s capacity to proceed to trial, the trial court issued a ruling denying the defendant’s motion to suppress and allowed the defendant to be rearraigned on the amended charge of second degree murder. While Article 642 permits the institution of prosecution in the interim between the appointment of a sanity commission and the ruling thereon, no provision is made for the amendment of an indictment or bill of information. In any event, assuming it was patent error to allow the filing of an amended charge, we find such error is not reversible. The reduction of the charge to second degree murder clearly bene-fitted the defendant by eliminating the possibility of a death sentence upon conviction. Likewise, if patent error occurred when the trial court fixed bond, the fixing of a bond on a reduced charge is also favorable to the defendant and cannot be deemed reversible patent error. The motion to suppress hearings w”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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