Lacy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Bailey v. State (1985), Smith v. State (1984)
34 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 Screws v. United States · Gaddis v. State · Wilson v. State · United States v. Noble · Nelson 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have no doubt a total failure to give an instruction detailing the elements of the offense would be available as reversible error on appeal absent compliance with the contemporaneous objection requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Davis v. State“'To be categorized as fundamental error and thus to transcend our procedural requirements, the error must be blatant, and the potential for harm must be substantial and appear clearly and prospectively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott v. State · Titara v. State“A defect is material only if the prosecutor's amendment affects the availability of a defense or the applicability of evidence which existed under the original information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Brown 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.