State v. Lockett’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), State v. Maurer (1984)
25 federal appellate · 85 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Witherspoon v. Illinois · State v. Bayless · Coffin v. United States · Thurston v. Maxwell
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person engaged in a common design with others to rob by force and violence an individual or individuals of their property is presumed to acquiesce in whatever may reasonably be necessary to accomplish the object of their enterprise... If the conspired robbery and the manner of its accomplishment would be reasonably likely to produce death, each plotter is equally guilty with the principal offender ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lockett v. Arn · Lockett v. Arn“No party may assign as error any portion of the charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating specifically the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Engle · State v. Weind“[a] person acts purposely when it is his specific intention to cause a certain result, or, when the gist of the offense is a prohibition against conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the offender intends to accomplish thereby, it is his specific intention to engage in conduct of that nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Widner · Lockett v. Ohio
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.