Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Gamez v. State (1987), McElwee v. McElwee (1995)
26 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 Postal Mutual Indemnity Co. v. Ellis · Hathorne v. State · Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. McGee · Muro v. State · Ex Parte Washington
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No judge or justice of the peace shall sit in any case where he may be the party injured, or where he has been of counsel for the State or the accused, or where the accused or the party injured may be connected with him by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gamez v. State · Lyon v. State““No judge shall set in any case wherein he may be interested, or where either of the parties may be connected with him, either by affinity or consanguinity, within such a degree as may be prescribed by law, or when he shall have been counsel in the case.””
2 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.