State v. Lefthand’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2024
18 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 Moran v. Burbine · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Patterson v. Illinois · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in-custody interrogation of a formally accused person who is represented by counsel should not proceed prior to notification of counsel or the presence of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dagnall · State v. Ford“[j]ustice is a process, not simply a result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“.On .its face, Rule 20 precludes the use of statements made by defendants in the course of the court-ordered mental ex- . aminations upon the issue of guilt. ■ The rule reflects clear intent that such statements will only be used on the issues of sanity or competence. In addition to securing the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, it is rather obvious that a contrary rule would undercut the usefulness of the Rule 20 examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Villalobos
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.