State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Warholic (2006), State v. Trine (1996)
90 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Roviaro v. United States · Pennoyer v. Neff
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the discretionary realm, it is improper for the trial court to fail to exercise its discretion”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily it is improper for the trial court to fail to exercise discretion if discretion is required. Nonetheless, we sustain the trial court's ruling in this case because had the trial court exercised its discretion, it could only have concluded, based upon the record in this case, that the proffered testimony was inadmissible. ... In sum, although the trial court failed to exercise its discretion, the record makes clear that, had it done so, it could have come to only one conclusion. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.