Lockett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006), Malone v. State (2013)
8 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Lockett v. Ohio · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Payne v. Tennessee · Estelle v. Smith
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant has a due process right to be present where his presence 'bears, or may fairly be assumed to bear, a relation, reasonably substantial, to his opportunity to defend.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DUNN v. STATE · Jones v. State“not phrased in personal terms, but appealed to the jury's understanding of justice and asked that standard be upheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant's presence is not required where such 'presence would be useless, or the benefit but a shadow.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DUNN v. STATE · Jones v. State
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.