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← 979 SO2D 648 - State v. Pamilton

State v. Pamilton’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
3
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Negron v. United States · Griffith v. United States · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · 661 So. 2d 442 - State v. Smith

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

  1. “(A). Second degree kidnapping is the doing of any of the acts listed in Subsection (B) wherein the victim is: ... (3) Physically injured or sexually abused; ... (B). For purposes of this Section, kidnapping is: (1) The forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place to another; or (2) The enticing or persuading of any person to go from one place to another; or (3) The imprisoning or forcible secreting of any person.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Louisiana R.S. 14:31(B) mandates that: Whoever commits manslaughter shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than forty years. However, if the victim killed was under the age of ten years, the offender shall be imprisoned at hard labor, without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence, for not less than ten years nor more than forty years.”
    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.