Lott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Maine (2011), 3 Cal. 5th 808 - Briggs v. Brown (2017)
37 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Fay v. Noia · Felker v. Turpin · Lonchar v. Thomas
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a writ of habeas corpus is to determine the legality or illegality of the restraint alleged to be exercised. It is available only to those persons, or on behalf of those persons, unlawfully imprisoned or restrained of their liberty, and is independent of the legal proceeding under which the detention is sought to be justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sentence which, as a matter of law, the court had no authority to impose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rabe v. State“to vacate, set aside, or correct the sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maine
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.