670 So. 2d 562 - State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2012
22 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 Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States · David W. McKay v. Texas · 445 So. 2d 1184 - State v. Jarman · 514 So. 2d 84 - State v. Comeaux
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rule is misnamed and should be known as the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Look at poor Mr. Lionel Augustine. He makes an identification with Sergeant Taylor two weeks after the incident. He says, Yeah; that’s her. The hair looks right. Yeah; I saw her face, things like that, [sic] Six months later, we do motion hearings in his house. And his health has deteriorated. And his memory has faded. And he said on the tape: I can’t remember. I can’t remember. I know the hair. The hair looked right. Yeah; I signed the back of the photo. Nobody forced me to sign the back of the photo. Nobody pointed out who to sign behind. But I can’t remember today. And where is he today? Is he in court? Did he come in and testify? No. he’s in the hospital. Congratulations, ladies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As the fourth circuit explained in State v. Ward, 94-490, pp. 12-14 (La.App. 4 Cir. 2/29/96) ; 670 So.2d 562 , 568-69: Thus under the Supreme Court's most recent pronouncement in State ex rel. Porter v. Butler, 573 So.2d 1106 (La.1991) only multiple convictions arising out of the same criminal act or episode and obtained on the same date will be considered as a single conviction for purposes of the habitual offender law.... Under Porter, the new general rule is that the trial court can multiple bill convictions rendered on the same day. The new limited exclusion is that the”
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.