State v. Lynds’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Baker v. State (1999), State v. Streich (1995)
41 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 Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts · Arizona v. Fulminante · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the importance of the witness' testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution's case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hazelton“(3) The deposition of a witness, whether or not a party, may be used by any party for any purpose if the court finds that the witness . . . (E) is absent from the hearing and the proponent of the deposition has been unable to procure the witness’ attendance by process or other reasonable means. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duto v. Mitchell
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.