State v. Lowther’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2021
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Katz v. United States · Mabry v. Johnson · Michigan v. Clifford · United States v. Griffin · United States v. Buettner-Janusch
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rders are required to be in writing because the trial court may change its ruling before the order is signed and entered. [4] For this reason, unrecorded rulings on motions are ineffective and need not be considered at a later date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparks · People Ex Rel. Ls“The prosecution shall dispose of all criminal cases by plea of guilty or nolo contendere, trial or dismissal within one hundred eighty days from the date the defendant has first appeared before a judicial officer on the complaint or indictment. Any period of delay shall be excluded if the trial court finds good cause for the delay. In the event of the prosecution's failure to dispose of the action within the time limit required by this section, the action shall be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Head“evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is inadmissible in a criminal prosecution to establish the impermissible inference that since the defendant committed a similar offense on another occasion, he has a propensity to commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goodroad
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.