Supreme Court of Louisiana· 10/22/1985
State v. Hamilton
Citations
- 478 So. 2d 123
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- \fundamental fairness dictates that an accused receive adequate prior notice that evidence of unrelated criminal activity may be offered by the prosecutor in an effort to punish him for the charged crime\
- a firearm’s requiring substantial trigger pull to fire the weapon, i.e., more than 4V2 pounds pressure on the trigger, was a circumstance which the jury could consider in determining whether the defendant deliberately discharged the firearm
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Judges: Lemmon
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48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Smith v. MurraySupreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1995-11-27· cited 380×
- State v. TorrenceSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-05-20· cited 352×
- Cole v. StateMississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 352×
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1992-05-26· cited 314×
- State v. DraughnSupreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-01-17· cited 292×
- State v. BourqueSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1993-07-01· cited 265×
- Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-28· cited 241×
- State v. HamptonSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-06-15· cited 157×
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-05-28· cited 128×
- Andrew Lee Jones v. Robert H. Butler, Sr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LouisianaFifth Circuit· 1989-02-21· cited 119×
- State v. BurrellSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-04-06· cited 119×
- State v. ComeauxSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1997-07-01· cited 118×
- State v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-11-30· cited 114×
- State v. BrooksSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-01-30· cited 112×
- State v. LowenfieldSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-02-06· cited 109×
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-10-19· cited 88×
- State v. OdenbaughSupreme Court of Louisiana· 2011-12-06· cited 84×
- State v. HolmesSupreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-12-02· cited 83×
- State v. HobleySupreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-12-15· cited 83×
Cites
12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
- Francis v. FranklinSupreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
- County Court of Ulster Cty. v. AllenSupreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
- State v. CaptvilleSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-02-27· cited 1,196×
- State v. PrieurSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1973-03-29· cited 910×
- State v. GibsonSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-11-10· cited 246×
- State v. HatcherSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-06-25· cited 133×
- State v. WingoSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-10-15· cited 102×
- State v. SawyerSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1982-10-18· cited 69×
- State v. JordanSupreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-10-17· cited 23×
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