Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably RLR v. State (1971), State v. O'Neill Investigations, Inc. (1980)
77 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 United States v. Johnson · Love v. State · 56 Cal. 2d 720 - People v. Love · Oxenberg v. Alaska · Floyd 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the reasons for the exercise of discretion are clearly untenable or unreasonable,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The brief shall contain] [t]he argument, stating clearly the points of fact and of law being discussed, with reference to the pages of the record and authorities relied upon in support of each point, (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the value of the evidence against the danger of undue prejudice, distraction of the jury from the issues, and waste of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.