891 So. 2d 1233 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
5
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lawrence v. Texas · Bowers v. Hardwick · State v. Smith · State v. Baxley · 495 So. 2d 1306 - State v. Griffin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hrough LSA-R.S. 14:89, the legislature has proscribed two types of conduct, each of which constitutes a crime against nature, and those two proscriptions are severable. In other words, even if LSA-R.S. 14:89(A)(1) were to be declared unconstitutional on its face or as applied in a given case, prosecution under LSA-R.S. 14:89(A)(2) could proceed without violating any constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“; and when committed by a human being with another, the use of the genital organ of one of the offenders of whatever sex is sufficient to constitute the crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with an animal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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