State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Gulbrandson (1995), State v. Murray (1995)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Lewis v. Adamson · Richmond v. Lewis · Lewis v. Adamson · State v. Leslie · State v. McCall
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conceded that there was little or no evidence of intent to kill and that the most probable explanation for the child's death was that Defendant became enraged, lost control, and beat the child quite seriously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Schriro“`any of the circumstances of the offense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Schriro“may never have formed an intent to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Schriro
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.