State v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Barrett (2005), State v. Kohl (2000)
4 district · 45 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · State v. Sery · Society of Separationists, Inc. v. Whitehead · State v. Mohi · Stewart v. Utah Public Service Commission
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When addressing such a challenge, this court presumes that the statute is valid, and we resolve any reasonable doubts in favor of constitutionality.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A constitutional challenge to a statute presents a question of law, which we review for correctness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“as both a state and federal constitutional matter, we conclude that due process requires that the prosecution prove every element of the charged crimes beyond a reasonable doubt”
3 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.