State v. Lovelace’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2001 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), Hagans v. State (1989)
53 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 Fuller v. United States · State v. Tamburano · Crosby v. United States · State v. Carter · Moore v. State
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In sum the lesser included offense is one all the elements of which are necessarily included in the greater.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A person shall be guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if he: (a) Intentionally engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as he believes them to be; or (b) Intentionally engages in conduct which, under the circumstances as he believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct intended to culminate in his commission of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When some of the elements of the crime charged in the information, without the addition of any element irrelevant to the original crime charged, may constitute another crime or crimes, such other crime or crimes are included within the crime charged.” [Emphasis in original.] [Citing and quoting from State v. McClarity, 180 Neb. 246 , 142 N.W.2d 152 (1966).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Pribil · State v. Jackson
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.