Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994), 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995)
106 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 Ohio v. Johnson · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lesser-included offense instruction should be granted unless the trial judge and ultimately this Court can say, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused and considering all the reasonable inferences which may be drawn in favor of the accused from the evidence, that no reasonable jury could find the defendant guilty of a lesser-included offense (conversely, not guilty of at least one essential element of the principal charge).”
20 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State · Alford v. State“[L]esser-included offense instructions should not be indiscriminately granted. Rather, they should be submitted to the jury only where there is an evidentiary basis in the record therefor.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Fair v. State“(1) A person is guilty of simple assault if he (a) attempts to cause or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or (b) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm; or (c) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily harm... .”
5 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.