Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
60
cited by 60 later decisions
16
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 1989 · most notably Hawes v. State (1889), People v. Jennes (1858)
60 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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.