Lofton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2020
12 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 Otis v. State · Thompson v. State · R.M.W. v. State · RMW 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a.In regards to the seriousness of the alleged offense and whether the protection of society requires prosecution in the criminal division of the circuit court, that the alleged offense is serious in nature and the seriousness requires prosecution in the criminal division of Circuit court; b. In regards to whether the alleged offense was committed in an aggressive, violent, premeditated, or willful manner, that evidence was presented showing that the alleged offense was committed in an aggressive, willful, or premeditated manner; c. In regards to whether the offense was against a person or property, with greater weight being given to offenses against persons, especially if personal injury resulted, that the commission of this offense was a crime against persons and not property; d. In regards to the culpability of the juvenile, including the level of planning l7and participation in the alleged offense, that the Defendant was as culpable as his co-defendants; e. In regards to the previous history of the juvenile, including whether the juvenile had been adjudicated a juvenile offender and, if so, whether the offenses were against persons or property, and any other previous history of antisocial behavior or patterns of physical violence, that the Defendant has no previous juvenile court history or history of violence; f. In regards to the sophistication or maturity of the juvenile as determined by consideration of the juvenile’s home, environment, emotional attitude, pattern of ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a juvenile may be tried as an adult solely because of the serious and violent nature of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes 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.