People v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Falby (1982), Commonwealth v. Chacko (1983)
38 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Rhode Island v. Innis · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot ignore the practical and human limitations of the jury system ... For the jurors in this case to [separate the probative component of the evidence from its unduly prejudicial component] is a feat beyond their `ability and almost certainly beyond their willingness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As an alternative to a showing of independent source or sufficient attenuation the prosecution might be able to demonstrate, as a basis for admission, that the witnesses and their testimony inevitably would have been discovered in the normal course of police investigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Briggs“[T]he trial court's cautionary instruction to the jury is not sufficient under these circumstances to offset the inflammatory nature of this testimony and its likely effect on the jury's deliberations.”
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.