State v. Tate

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the district attorney “represents the State, and the State demands no victims. It seeks justice only, equal and impartial justice. ... ”
• ordering recusal of district attorney who was employed as an attorney in several civil suits against the defendant
• noting that the district attorney, as representative of the state, “seeks justice only, equal and impartial justice, and it is as much the duty of the district attorney to see that no innocent man suffers as it is to see that no guilty man escapes”
• “The district attorney is a quasi judicial officer. He represents the State, and the State demands no victims. It seeks justice only, equal and impartial justice....”
• trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to recuse District Attorney from prosecution for blowing up a cotton gin on grounds the District Attorney represented insurers attempting to recover from defendant the loss on property | f,destroyed in the explosion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Superior Court (Greer)
  California Supreme Court· 1977-03-30· cited 170×
• State v. Britton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 56×
• Sinclair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-09-14· cited 52×
• State of Louisiana v. Jessie M. Griffin, II
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2015-10-14· cited 45×
• State Ex Rel. Alden Morgan v. State of Louisiana
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2016-10-19· cited 37×
• State v. Melerine
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1959-02-16· cited 33×
• Lykins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-23· cited 32×
• Plaquemines Parish Com'n Council v. Perez
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-01-24· cited 31×
• State v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1964-06-08· cited 25×
• State v. Hopper
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1967-06-05· cited 25×
• State v. St. Julian
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1952-10-28· cited 21×
• State v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1970-06-08· cited 21×
• State v. Brazile
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1956-11-05· cited 18×
• State v. Franklin
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2014-06-11· cited 18×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-03-13· cited 16×
• State v. Marcotte
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1956-01-16· cited 16×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-04-27· cited 16×
• Sinclair v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-06-26· cited 11×
• State v. Ortiz
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2013-01-29· cited 11×
• Standridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2012-10-10· cited 7×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Nicely
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1889-11-11· cited 76×
• State v. McClellan
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1923-11-05· cited 25×
• State v. Newhouse
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1877-11-15· cited 22×
• State ex rel. Broussard v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1907-11-18· cited 20×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1906-03-12· cited 19×
• State v. Boasberg
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1909-04-26· cited 18×
• Connell v. Commission Council
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1922-12-29· cited 18×
• State v. Love
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1901-11-15· cited 15×