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728 So. 2d 416 - State v. Thibodeaux’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
May 2015
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 118 S. Ct. 335 - Gens v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Campbell v. Louisiana · Dick v. Kemp · In re Judd · State v. Martin

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.

  1. “The mere fact that the crime scene photographs are unpleasant, horrifying, or gruesome does not render them inadmissible, nor does the fact that the photographs bring vividly to the jurors the details of a shocking crime. The key is that the probative value of the photographs outweighs their prejudicial effect.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “purpose of voir dire examination is not to elicit jurors' opinions concerning particular evidence,”
    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.