State v. Lapage’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State (1959), Weiss v. United States (1941)
21 federal appellate · 101 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 Commonwealth v. O'Brien · Chapman v. Kimball · People of the State of N.Y. v. . Corbin · State v. Renton
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any act of the prisoner may be put in evidence against him, provided it has any logical and legal tendency to prove any matter which is in issue between him and the state, notwithstanding it might have an indirect bearing, which in strictness it ought not to have, upon some other matter in issue.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rand · Dietz v. State“`3. It is not permitted to show in the prisoner a tendency or disposition to commit the crime with which he is charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is here, however, that the fundamental distinction begins, for, while particular acts may lie proved to show malice or scienter, it is inadmissible to prove either in this or any other way that the defendant had a tendency to the crime charged. Thus in England it has been held that upon the trial of a person charged with an unnatural crime it was not permitted to prove that the defendant had admitted that, lie had a tendency to such practices.””
1 later decision 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.