State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 204 W. Va. 449 - State v. Myers (1998), Salcedo v. People (2000)
34 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 Florida v. Royer · Reid v. Georgia · State v. Bible · United States v. Wing Fook Lui · United States v. Gomez-Norena
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plea bargaining is nothing more than a pragmatic tool for enhancing judicial economy, conserving state resources, and promoting justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“risk that a defendant will be convicted not for what he did but for what others are doing.”
1 later decision 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.