Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 1999
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 52 Ala. App. 260 - Barnett v. State · Gautney v. State · Gosa v. State · Cagle v. State · 50 Ala. App. 381 - Snow 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that voluntary drunkenness is not a defense to a criminal charge unless it is so extreme as to render impossible some mental condition which is an essential element of the criminal act”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Coon v. State · Jones v. State“[i]ncapable of voluntarily doing anything”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coon 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.