State v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Walls v. Arizona Department of Public Safety (1991), State v. Grannis (1995)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anders v. California · Illinois v. Gates · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Cortez
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to find the defendants guilty of first degree murder, you must find that the death was proximately caused by the acts of the defendants. The proximate cause of a death is a cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, produces the death, and without which the death would not have occurred. Proximate cause does not exist if the chain of natural effects and cause either does not exist or is broken by intervening events which were unforeseeable by the defendants. Conduct is the cause of a result when both of the following exist: (1) But for the conduct, the result in question would not have occurred. (2) The relationship between the conduct and results satisfies any additional causal requirement imposed by the statute defining the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“personally be in possession of all the facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lietzau
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.