Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Thomas v. State (2002), Smith v. State (2003)
66 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 In re Bonner · Rogers v. State · Emerson v. Boyles · Coones v. State · Fletcher 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A defendant who is convicted of a felony involving violence enumerated in subdivision (d)(2) of this section and who has previously been convicted of two (2) or more of the felonies involving violence enumerated in subdivision (d)(2) of this section shall be sentenced to an extended term of imprisonment, without eligibility except under § 16-93-1302for parole or community punishment transfer as follows: (A) For a conviction of a Class Y felony, a term of not less than life in prison[.] [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayes 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.