Lockett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably Fikes v. State (1955), Vernon v. State (1940)
61 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 Anderson v. State · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen · Stone v. State · Smith v. State · Florence Cotton & Iron Co. v. Field
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If evidence is admitted without required preliminary proof, if followed by such proof or predicate, the error is cured.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The evidence of joint participation in the common criminal enterprise was evidence of conspiracy between Mays and Lockett rendering admissible against Lockett the doings of Mays in furtherance or in perpetration of the crime. . . . ” ( 218 Ala. at page 43 , 117 So. at page 458 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards 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.