State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Our Louisiana Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that allowing a jury to review evidence or testimony such as audiotapes or transcripts during deliberations is reversible error because of the possibility that jurors might give undue weight to that limited portion of the oral testimony adduced at trial. (Citations omitted). Brooks, 00-953 at p. 7, 777 So.2d at 647 , citing, Broussard, 598 So.2d at 1303 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 818 So. 2d 231 - State v. Sellers

2. “Just as a party may knowingly and voluntarily waive his constitutional rights... parties may agree to waive a statutory provision such as La.Code Crim.P. art. 793. Such an agreement must be in clear express language and must be reflected in the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 838 So. 2d 725 - State v. Brooks

3. “allowing the jury to view and listen to the tapes during deliberations was the same as having testimony repeated to the jury, which is expressly prohibited by LSA C.Cr.P. art. 793.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 838 So. 2d 725 - State v. Brooks