Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Lannan v. State (1992), Barger v. State (1992)
46 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 Norton v. State · Miller v. State · Austin v. State · Thomas v. State · Bryant 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my opinion the child is telling the truth”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“a great anxiety on (her) part to be very sure she was telling the truth very precisely.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dietrich v. State · Krumm v. State“that there is a special problem in assessing the credibility of children who are called upon as witnesses to describe sexual conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Krumm 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.