Lester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State (1967)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Thomas v. State · 7 Smith & H. 681 - Cisco v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Failure to remember later, when accused, is in itself no proof of the mental condition when crime was performed. . “ . . . amnesia, in and of itself, is no defense to a criminal charge unless it is shown by competent evidence that the accused ‘did not know the nature and quality of his action and that it was wrong.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humphreys v. State
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.