State v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), Mullaney v. Wilbur (1975)
6 federal appellate · 41 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cady v. Dombrowski · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Garrity v. State of New Jersey
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No party shall assign as error any portion of the charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. Opportunity shall be given to make the objection out of the hearing and presence of the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Northup“As we read the (First Circuit) case, the Federal Court was of the impression that (murder) includes, in addition to an intentional and unlawful killing, the independent element of 'malice aforethought.' Such is not, and never has been, the law in Maine. As we said in (State v. Rollins, 295 A.2d 914, 920 (1972) ): " '(T)he "malice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the Fifth Amendment and their admissibility is not affected by our holding today.’ ” Me., 309 A.2d at 655 , citing Miranda, supra, 384 U.S. at 478 , 86 S.Ct. 1602 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farley
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.