State v. Connolly’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 3 So. 3d 685 - State v. Eason (2009), 936 So. 2d 108 - State v. Leger (2006)
69 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 American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Dobbert v. Florida · Murphy v. Florida · Pulley v. Harris · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A change of venue shall be granted when the applicant proves that by reason of prejudice existing in the public mind or because of undue influence, or that for any other reason, a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained in the parish where the prosecution is pending. In deciding whether to grant a change of venue the court shall consider whether the prejudice, the influence, or the other reasons are such that they will affect the answers of jurors on the voir dire examination or the testimony of witnesses at the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Art. 797. Challenge for cause The state or the defendant may challenge a juror for cause on the ground that: * * * (2) The juror is not impartial, whatever the cause of his partiality. . . . * * * (4) The juror will not accept the law as given to him by the court . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris · State v. Campbell“In order for you to find the offense was committed in an especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner, there must exist evidence from which you can find beyond a reasonable doubt that there was torture, or the pitiless unnecessary infliction of pain on the victims.”
2 later decisions 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.