State v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State v. Johnson (1999), State v. Primus (2002)
46 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 Kercheval v. United States · State v. Copeland · State v. Butler · State v. Gandy · State v. Boone
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge is required to charge the jury on a lesser included offense if there is evidence from which it could be inferred that a defendant committed the lesser, rather than the greater offense. State v. Tyson, 283 S.C. 375 , 323 S.E.2d 770 (1984); State v. Gandy, 283 S.C. 571 , 324 S.E.2d 65 (1984).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirby · State v. Sprouse
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.