Michigan v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
249 federal appellate · 34 district · 253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 792 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably United States v. Scheffer (1998), Montana v. Egelhoff (1996)
249 federal appellate · 34 district · 253 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Washington v. Texas
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 792 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may, in appropriate cases, bow to accommodate other legitimate interests in the criminal trial process.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness' safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may not be arbitrary or disproportionate to the purposes they are designed to serve.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Coplan · Jackson v. Nevada
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.