607 So. 2d 1018 - State v. Carouthers’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “has been adopted by the Louisiana Supreme Court and was explained in State v. Steele, 387 So.2d 1175, 1177 (La.1980), as follows: If the evidence required to support a finding of guilt of one crime would also have supported conviction of the other, the two are the same offense under a plea of double jeopardy, and a defendant can be placed in jeopardy for only one. The test depends on the evidence necessary for conviction, not all the evidence introduced at trial. See State v. Doughty [ 379 So.2d 1088 (La.1980)], supra. The”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Taylor · 704 So. 2d 1281 - State v. Hammond

2. “"The applicable rule is that, where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Taylor · 704 So. 2d 1281 - State v. Hammond

3. “punishable by imprisonment for more than twelve years”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 618 So. 2d 880 - State v. Carouthers