State v. Lekin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2011
7 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on 13 Ill. 2d 45 - Village of Niles v. Szczesny · State v. Vesey · 26 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 768 - People v. Ring · McGuire v. City of Cedar Rapids · State v. Cook
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If an order decides an issue merely as a step toward final disposition of a prosecution, it is interlocutory; however, if it disposes of a separable branch of the case, it is an appealable final judgment.” State v. Lekin, 271 N.W. 2d 697, 700 (Iowa 1978).”
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.