Lukach v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Thomas v. State (1993), Brenk v. State (1993)
100 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 Burks v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Porter v. States · Marquez v. Texas
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s the facts necessary to prove these offenses would be required in both trials and as each of the girls' testimonies would be admissible in the trial of the other's rape to show appellant's intent, motive, or common scheme or plan, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to sever the two cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“same or similar character and are not part of a single scheme or plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clay 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.