Lombardo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Davis (1994), Asherman v. State (1987)
62 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 People v. . Shilitano · Turner v. Scanlon · State v. Grimes · Taborsky v. State · Pradlik 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition will never be granted except on substantial grounds.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he [petitioner] must persuade the court that the new evidence he submits will probably , not merely possibly, result in a different verdict at a new trial .... It is not sufficient for him to bring in new evidence from which a jury could find him not guilty-it must be evidence which persuades the judge that a jury would find him not guilty.”
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.