State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Board of Liquor License Commissioners v. Leone (1968), State v. Medicine Eagle (2013)
35 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Freeman v. United States · Michigan v. Bryant
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The accused's right is to be confronted with the analyst who made the certification....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Marshall v. People
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.