State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Bellcourt v. State (1986), State v. Edwards (1984)
30 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 Cree v. Goldstein · Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Harrington · Lyles v. United States · State v. Merrill · State v. Leinweber
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the evidence would reasonably support a conviction of the lesser crime, and (2) whether the evidence would also support a finding of not guilty of the greater crime. Where the evidence warrants such an instruction, the trial court must give the appropriate instructions. Unless the defendant waves such instructions, it is error not to submit the lesser degrees to the jury, except in the extraordinary situation where failure to do so is otherwise supported by a proper exercise of the trial court’s discretion and no prejudice to the defendant results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boitnott · State v. Kelly“Any evidence that logically tends to prove or disprove a material fact in issue is relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.