State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
8 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 · Victor v. Nebraska · State v. Dorthey · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In State v. Matthews, 450 So.2d 644 (La.1984), the Louisiana Supreme Court held that it is not essential that the state prove that the defendant's action was the sole cause of death; it is sufficient if the defendant's conduct hastened the termination of life, or contributed, mediately or immediately, to the death, in a degree sufficient to be a clearly contributing cause. Subsequent cases by the Louisiana Supreme Court have used the "substantial factor" standard, and subsequent cases by this court have used both standards. These standards are used interchangeably, and therefore, the basic determination is whether the defendant's act was a proximate cause of the victim's death. In State v. Kalathakis, 563 So.2d 228 (La.1990), and State v. Martin, 539 So.2d 1235 (La.1989), the Supreme Court used the "substantial factor" standard and cited State v. Matthews, supra . In State v. Martin, supra , the court stated that proof that the defendant's conduct was a proximate cause of death is sufficient to satisfy causality requirements. In State v. Beason, 26,725 (La.App.2d Cir.4/7/95), 653 So.2d 1274 , this court stated that the defendant's conduct need not be the sole proximate cause of the victim's death; it is sufficient for the defendant's acts to be a contributing cause or a substantial factor. In State v. Mosely, 475 So.2d 76 (La.App. 2d Cir.1985), this court mentioned both standards from State v. Matthews, supra , in finding that the beating inflicted upon an eighteen-month-old ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gourdine“cases involving the most serious violation of the offense and the worst type of offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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