640 So. 2d 561 - State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 695 So. 2d 1367 - State v. Kennerson (1997), 672 So. 2d 197 - State v. Crawford (1996)
58 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 · Georgia v. McCollum · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · State v. Richardson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An illegal sentence is one not `authorized or directed by law.' State v. Johnson, 220 La. 64 , 55 So.2d 782 (1951).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose. B. Mere preparation to commit a crime shall not be sufficient to constitute an attempt; ... C. An attempt is a separate but lesser grade of the intended crime; and any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Y]ou are sentenced to eight (8) years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections, two (2) years of which shall be served without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence ... You’re further sentenced to pay to the Sheriff of Natchitoches Parish a fine of one thousand dollars ($1000) plus cost, five hundred ($500) for the public defender, and one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for the crime lab, in default of which serve an additional six (6) months in jail.”
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.