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← 27 CONNAPP 734 - Lemonious v. Burns

Lemonious v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
July 2000
most recently cited

27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Kelley v. Bonney · State v. Pinnock · Preston v. Keith · Sweet v. Sweet

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “jury instructions need not be exhaustive, perfect or technically accurate, so long as they are correct in law, adapted to the issues and sufficient for the guidance of the jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is well established that the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony is a matter wholly within the province of the jury.”
    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.