State v. Lauritsen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 171 W. Va. 342 - State v. Richey (1982), State v. McCulloch (2007)
41 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Watson v. State · Cascio v. State · State v. Hemmenway · Torres v. State · 30 Ill. App. 3d 86 - People v. D'ANGELO
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is uniformly the rule that a defendant's physical appearance may be considered by the jury in determining his or her age.”
4 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.