597 So. 2d 593 - State v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
16 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 Coppedge v. United States · Gilliam v. United States · Hardy v. United States · 338 So. 2d 107 - State v. Ford · State v. Burdgess
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... “The Supreme Court has made it clear beyond question that a criminal defendant has a right to a complete transcript of the trial proceedings, particularly where, as here, counsel on appeal was not counsel at the trial. Hardy v. United States, 1963, [1964] 375 U.S. 277 , 84 S.Ct. 424 , 11 L.Ed.2d 331 . [U.S. v. Atilus] 425 F.2d 816 [(5th Cir.1970)]. Our Court has at least twice reversed convictions because of infirmities in the record available to the Court for review. In State v. Bizette, 334 So.2d 392 (La.1976), we remanded a case for new trial when the recording equipment used at the trial malfunctioned, and we were unable to adequately review the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for acquittal. Likewise, in the case of State v. Rooney, 187 La. 256, 257 , 174 So. 348 (1937), where both parties entered a joint motion to have the verdict annulled and the case remanded, we reversed defendant’s conviction because of an incomplete record, stating: ‘the transcript of the testimony taken in relation to the bills of exception reserved by the defendant is so defective and in such condition that it is impossible to present the case intelligently on appeal. Hence it appears to be in the interest of justice that the verdict and sentence should be set aside and the case remanded for a new trial.’ In Louisiana, as in the federal courts, an appeal from a felony conviction is an absolute right. La. Const, art. VII, Sec. 10 (1921); La. Const, art. V, Sec. 5(D)(2) (1974); Copped”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murphy“considering the overwhelming evidence of defendant[s]'s guilt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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