State v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 901 So. 2d 781 - Pena v. State (2005), 82 So. 3d 47 - Universal Insurance Co. of North America v. Warfel (2012)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 172 So. 2d 824 - Hedges v. State · 573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith · 552 So. 2d 914 - Rojas v. State · 579 So. 2d 734 - Armstrong v. State · 544 So. 2d 1006 - Stockton v. State
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmatively agreed to or requested the incomplete instruction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jimenez v. State · Hanks v. State“[F]ailure to give a complete instruction on manslaughter during the original jury charge is fundamental error which is not subject to harmless-error analysis where the defendant has been convicted of either manslaughter or a greater offense not more than one step removed, such as second-degree murder.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause manslaughter is a `residual offense, defined by reference to what it is not,' a complete instruction on manslaughter requires an explanation that justifiable and excusable homicide are excluded from the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.