719 So. 2d 49 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 839 So. 2d 1 - State v. Smith (2003), 770 So. 2d 868 - State v. Robinson (2000)
79 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. Sepulvado · McKay v. Jobin · State v. Cook · 450 So. 2d 634 - State v. Nealy · 445 So. 2d 1171 - State v. Williams
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Louisiana law favors concurrent sentences for crimes committed as part of a single transaction, La.C.Cr.P. art. 883 ; State v. Underwood , 353 So.2d 1013 , 1019 (La.1977), a trial judge retains discretion to impose consecutive penalties on the basis of other factors, including the offender's past criminality, violence in the charged crimes, or the risk he or she poses to the general safety of the community. State v. Williams , 445 So.2d 1171 , 1182 (La.1984) ; State v. Jacobs , 371 So.2d 727 , 732-33 (La.1979) (on reh'g).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On appellate review of sentence, the relevant question is `whether the trial court abused its broad sentencing discretion, not whether another sentence might have been more appropriate.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven granting the consecutive nature of the penalties imposed on all three counts, the defendant's total sentence remains within the 35 to 50 year range this Court has found acceptable for first offenders convicted of armed robbery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Merritt · State v. Jones
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.