State v. Lombard’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2013
10 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 State v. Dorthey · State v. Sepulvado
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Louisiana’s judiciary maintains the distinct responsibility of reviewing sentences imposed in criminal cases for constitutional exeessiveness. State v. Sepulvado, 367 So.2d 762 (La.1979). However, in order to find the punishment mandated by La.R.S. 15:529.1 excessive, the trial judge must find that the sentence makes no measurable contribution to the acceptable goals of punishment or that the sentence amounts to nothing more than the purposeful imposition of pain and suffering and is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime. State v. Dorthey, 623 So.2d 1276 (La.1993). In imposing a six year sentence rather than the statutorily-mandated eight year sentence, the trial court made no such finding. Clearly, under the standards set forth in Dorthey , it cannot be said that an eight year sentence is grossly out of proportion to the crime, whereas a six year sentence is not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Armstrong
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.