State v. Lemon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably State v. Dayton (1976), State v. Thibodeau (1976)
36 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 State v. Spica · State v. Castaldi · State v. Richetti · State v. Taylor · State v. Petrechko
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“barter, exchange, or gift, or offer therefor, and each such transaction made by any person...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tierney · Parker v. State““The purpose of the chain of custody and possession rule is, of course, to vouch safe assurance that the exhibit has not been altered or tampered with and that there has been no substitution. * * *. To meet this burden, the state is not required to exclude every possibility of these occurrences, * * * nor to show that some credible witness retained the exhibit in his personal possession or under constant watch, * * *. Evidence which provides a reasonable assurance that the exhibit is the same and in the same condition meets the test, * * (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thibodeau““Every person who shall be a principal in the second degree in the commission of any felony, or who shall be an accessory to any murder or other felony before the fact, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of the offense in the same degree, and may be charged, tried, convicted and punished in the same manner, as the principal in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barkwell
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.