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← 259 Ga. 855 - Lawton v. State

Lawton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 2009
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Thomas v. State · Cooper v. State · Jones v. State · Lee 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “defendant lacks standing to assert [another's] privilege against self-incrimination. [Cit.]”
    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.