State v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Mata (1980), State v. Davolt (2004)
49 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Adams v. Williams
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether there has been an accurate in-court identification of the defendant, not tainted by prior identification procedures and whether such procedures are fair, are preliminary questions for the trial court, (citation omitted), and the trial court’s determination will not be overturned on appeal absent a clear and manifest error, (citations omitted)” State v. Lamb, 116 Ariz. 134, 139 , 568 P.2d 1032, 1037 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGill“It is reversible error for a trial judge in a criminal case to communicate with the jurors after they have retired to deliberate unless the defendant and counsel have been notified and given an opportunity to be present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fletcher“... evidence obtained as a result of an unlawful search need not be suppressed where, in the normal course of the police investigation and absent illicit conduct, the evidence would have been discovered anyway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ault
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.