Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2019
9 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 Whitton v. State · Pulakis v. State · Williams v. State · Troyer v. State · Law 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could also lull the jury into a false sense of security and result in the jury failing to carefully scrutinize conflicting witness testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sharpe“[d]espite its unreliability, polygraph evidence might be perceived by the jury as a complete answer to questions of credibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sharpe
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.