Lester v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Carnley v. Cochran (1962), 524 So. 2d 403 - Torres-Arboledo v. State (1988)
62 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 Garner v. State · Dixon v. State · State v. Evans · People v. Gray · Donnelly 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Great care should always be observed by the judge to avoid the use of any remark in the hearing of the jury that is capable, directly or indirectly, expressly, inferentially, or by innuendo, of conveying any intimation as to what view he takes of the case, or that intimates his opinion as to the weight, character, or credibility of any evidence adduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reyes 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.