State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. Baca (1997)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 Missouri v. Hunter · Swafford v. State · State v. Ortega · State v. Orosco · State v. Osborne
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ur felony-murder rule is best described as elevating the crime of second-degree murder to first-degree murder when the murder is committed during the course of a dangerous felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ttorneys and judges have an obligation to keep abreast of current changes in the law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.