State v. Lavers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Ring (2003), State v. Roque (2006)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 141 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 Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Ross · Rideout v. United States · McCleskey v. Kemp · Andresen v. Maryland
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General provision. The requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims. (b) Illustrations. By way of illustration only, and not by way of limitation, the following are examples of authentication or identification conforming with the requirements of this rule: (4) Distinctive characteristics and the like. Appearance, contents, substance, internal patterns, or other distinctive characteristics, taken in conjunction with circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rienhardt“(1) Defendant’s capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirement of law was significantly impaired but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution. (2) Defendant comes from an abusive background, including both physical and mental abuse. (3) Defendant feels some remorse for the killing. (4) Defendant does not have prior violent convictions. (5) Defendant has had a longstanding history of alcohol and drug abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Detrich“Defendant was convicted of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. The murders occurred in the same place and resulted from the same disturbance. Moreover, both murders “were committed by [defendant] in a relatively short period of time in what can be fairly viewed as one continuous course of criminal conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rogovich
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.