State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “On the morning of October 31, 1996, forty-five-year-old Nelson Beaugh and his seventy-year-old mother, Della Beaugh, were fatally shot in Nelson’s home in Marrero, Louisiana. Nelson’s mother-in-law discovered their bodies when she arrived to clean the house that same morning. Both victims had been shot in the head. An investigation led to the issuance of an arrest warrant for the defendant, Lawrence J. Jacobs, Jr., who was sixteen years old at the time.... When the police contacted the defendant’s father, Lawrence Jacobs, Sr., Mr. Jacobs notified the case agent, Lieutenant Snow, that his son had run away from home two months earlier, but that he would assist in locating him. Thereafter, Mr. Jacobs discovered that the defendant had fled to Jackson, Mississippi, where they had relatives. Mr. Jacobs picked his son up in Jackson, drove him back to Louisiana, and surrendered him to Lt. Snow.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 So. 3d 677 - State v. Jacobs · 67 So. 3d 535 - State v. Jacobs

2. “The issue of purposeful racial discrimination in the use of peremptory challenges is a matter of utmost seriousness affecting not only the trial itself, but the perceived fairness of the judicial system as a whole. The trial judge observes first-hand the demeanor of the attorneys and venirepersons, the nuances of questions asked, the racial composition of the venire, and the general atmosphere of the voir dire that simply cannot be replicated from a cold record.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 So. 3d 677 - State v. Jacobs · 67 So. 3d 535 - State v. Jacobs

3. “context, the basis of the exclusion is that a prospective juror”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 955 So. 2d 90 - State v. Blank · 931 So. 2d 297 - State v. Weary