Lay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), State v. Hogan (1996)
56 state decisions
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 Strickland v. Washington · Payne v. Tennessee · Saffle v. Parks · California v. Brown · Barclay v. Florida
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prosecution's references to, or implications of, witness intimidation by a defendant are reversible error unless the prosecutor also produces substantial credible evidence that the defendant was the source of the intimidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. State“the simple fact that a witness has contradicted himself in the past does not tend to explain away the charge, and therefore make the witnessIs] first statement exculpatory within the meaning of the exculpatory evidence statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[elvidence of affiliation with a particular group is only relevant at the penalty phase of a criminal trial when membership in that group is linked to the charged offense, or is used as other than general character evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.