998 So. 2d 864 - State v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · 839 So. 2d 1 - 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“D. Whoever commits the crime of aggravated rape ... (2) if the victim was under the age of thirteen years, as provided by Paragraph (A)(4) of this Section: (b) [where] the district attorney does not seek a capital verdict, the offender shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. * * * - La. R.S. 14:27, Attempt, states in pertinent part: D. Whoever attempts to commit any crime shall be punished as follows: (l)(a) If the offense so attempted is punishable by death or life imprisonment, he Shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than fifty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. * ⅜ * ‘ ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnston
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.