State v. Lunsford’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably State v. Hall (1980), State v. Barker (1978)
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 Gallego v. United States · State v. Coleman · West v. United States · Brewer v. United States · Hedges v. Conder
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The State and trial court were made aware through several prior objections that the defense contended the exhibit could not be received without testimony from all persons who had custody of it. The State was aware of its problem when it offered the evidence as to Bartholomew’s experiment. In these circumstances the objection was sufficient to alert trial court and the State to its ground. “We do not wish to be understood as approving the form of the objection. We do not approve it. A foundation objection must be sufficiently specific to alert trial court and opposing counsel to its basis. [Citation].” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rush
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.