Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Brewer v. State (1981), Griffin v. State (1981)
157 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 Ashton v. Anderson · State v. Ferrone · Book v. State Office Building Commission · Watts v. State · Meeks 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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is generally inadmissible in a criminal case, because it has no tendency to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused but, if effective at all, could serve only to prejudice or mislead or excite the minds and inflame the passions of the jury.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t cannot be believed that an accused man would ever have a fair trial, resulting in a verdict not affected by prejudice or by considerations by which the jury should not be influenced, if during that trial allegations that he has ... before been convicted of ... crimes have been read to the jury, and evidence of his former convictions has been placed before them. It is beyond question that knowledge of such facts must necessarily prejudice the minds of his triers against the accused[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Minor v. State · Coble v. State“"Of course, the accused may plead guilty to this [habitual offender] part of the information, and then no further proceedings before or by the jury would be nee-essary. No reason appears why the accused, if he should choose, might not submit this issue to the Court without the jury."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Neeley 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.