State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Lee v. Missouri (1979), State v. Duren (1977)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Taylor v. Louisiana · Dobbert v. Florida · Trudo v. United States · Miller v. Rhay · State v. Spica
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he facts and circumstances relied on by the state to establish guilt must be consistent with each other, consistent with the guilt of the defendant, and inconsistent with any reasonable theory of his innocence. (Citations omitted) State v. Lee, supra at 32.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
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.