Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 1 Cal. 3d 431 - People v. Wilson · Downs v. Florida · Jenkins v. State · Aguirre v. State · Kenealy v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant had committed an underlying felony plus an additional act (other than the conduct covered by the underlying felony) that was clearly dangerous to human life”) and at 401 (Legislature did not limit felony-murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lomax 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.