LaPorte v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Mallett v. State (2001), Williams v. State (2008)
53 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 Drake v. State · Levy v. State · Smith v. State · Garza v. State · Caughorn v. State
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the accused is found guilty of more than one offense arising out of the same criminal episode prosecuted in a single criminal action, sentence for each offense for which he has been found guilty shall be pronounced. Such sentences shall run concurrently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Parfait v. State“In this chapter, "criminal episode” means the commission of two or more offenses, regardless of whether the harm is directed toward or inflicted upon more than one person or item of property, under the following circumstances: (1) the offenses are committed pursuant to the same transaction or pursuant to two or more transactions that are connected or constitute a common scheme or plan; or (2) the offenses are the repeated commission of the same or similar offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An improper cumulation order is, in essence, a void sentence and such error cannot be waived” and that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. State · Bates v. State
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.