Lackey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Fleming (1986), Smith v. State (1981)
65 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Mapp v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Sandstrom v. Montana · Dunaway v. New York
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to prevent a witness who has not testified, or who has not completed his or her testimony, from overhearing and having his or her testimony affected by the testimony of another witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]alice is a state of mind and frequently must be proven indirectly. [Cit.] Whether a child has been starved, neglected and abused with malice as to constitute murder, or has merely been harmed as a result of inability, carelessness or accident, may often require considerable indirect proof to determine the parent’s state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. State““Viewing the charge as a whole, the jury could not have understood that the nonconclusive presumption was a means by which proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to [malice] could be satisfied — ” Lackey v. State, 246 Ga. 331, 339 ( 271 SE2d 478 ) (1980); accord, Pulliam v. Balkcom, 245 Ga. 99, 101 ( 263 SE2d 123 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee 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.