Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007
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 Furman v. Georgia · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Gunn v. United States · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir · 267 So. 2d 8 - Anderson 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retain[ed] its functions, though discharge may have been spoken by the court, ... [because] it remain[ed] an undispersed unit, within the control of the court, with no opportunity to mingle with or discuss the case with others.”
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.