State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · 22 Cal. 3d 493 - Scherling v. Superior Court · State v. Kingsley · State v. Haddock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Lee ran a drug operation out of the home of Allen Brooks. Marqueta owed Lee drug money. Lee, James C. Sanders (Lee’s uncle), and Glenn Whistnant went to Steven Alexander’s home, and Sanders and Whistnant forcibly removed Marqueta. Sanders put a gun to Alexander’s head and backed out of the home with Alexander in tow. (The kidnapping charge arose from this incident.) Roselyn Surratt, a friend of Marqueta’s, was a resident of the Alexander home and was present when Marqueta and Alexander were removed from the home. (The aggravated assault charge arose from threats made to Surratt during this incident.) The aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder charges arose because Marqueta was forcibly taken from Alexander s home and killed. “Marqueta was taken to Brooks’ home, forced to disrobe, and questioned intensely for some 2 hours. Before being taken from the Alexander home, Marqueta admitted she had taken the drug money and said, ‘You might as well go on ahead and kill me.’ She was told, ‘That wouldn’t be any problem.’ While at Brooks’ home, Lee was angry, and Marqueta was upset and crying and requesting that she not be killed. “Marqueta was next taken to the field where her remains were ultimately located. In the field, another long conversation took place concerning the drug money. Lee then gave Marqueta permission to walk home. When she had walked some 150 yards away from Lee, Sanders, and Whistnant, Lee sent Sanders to bring her back. “Sanders testified that Lee had been d”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lee
How this case has been treated — in progress
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