Lacy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2020
14 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 Stewart v. State · Williams 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court concluded that the motion [for continuance so the defense could call a witness whose testimony contradicted the state’s evidence and whose previous statement was not given to the defense by the prosecution] came too late. We are satisfied that the court should have granted the motion. It was inexcusable for the police not to disclose Hensley’s statement. While the State opened its file to defense counsel, the file did not contain Hensley’s statement because the police had not given it to the prosecuting attorney. We held in Williams v. State, 267 Ark. 527 , 593 S.W.2d 8 (1979), that if the police have a statement, knowledge of that statement is imputed to the prosecuting attorney. Ark. R. Crim. P. 17.1 requires disclosure and if that rule is to have any meaning it must have that interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dever 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.