Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2016
6 federal appellate · 16 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Lockhart v. McCree · Doerr v. Doerr · Yagow v. United States · Georgia v. McCollum
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that certain language or expression [is] used in the opinions of this Court to reach its final conclusion does not make it proper language for instructions to a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ludy v. State“lengthy and detailed evaluation of each possible aggravator and each possible mitigator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. State“'The trial court did not err in refusing to give a voluntary manslaughter instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert 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.