Lord v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Kazalyn v. State (1992), Johnson v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 106 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Bruton v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Harrington v. California · Beck v. Alabama
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as would govern or control a person in the more weighty affairs of life.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chambers v. State · Evans v. State“improperly quantified the concept of reasonable doubt during closing argument by suggesting that having 90-95% of the pieces of a puzzle suffices to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adcock v. State“Parties to a criminal case should assiduously avoid such attempts to quantify the concept of reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Randolph v. State
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.