Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2001
17 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Beck v. State of Ohio · Swain v. State of Alabama · United States v. Hall · Hollins v. State of Oklahoma
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When committed by accident or misfortune ... in doing any other lawful act, by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ussery v. State
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.