Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Williams v. State (1983), Harwell v. State (1999)
35 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 Jordan v. De George · United States v. Moreland · Pryor v. State · Shaw v. State · Ford 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which man owes to his fellow men, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man.” [Lewis, supra at 444 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The gravest offenses, consisting of felonies, infamous crimes, and those that are malum in se and disclose a depraved mind.... As used in this state moral turpitude seems to mean infamy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Williams
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.