State v. Lorraine’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 337 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 351 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Treesh (2001)
8 federal appellate · 337 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Payne v. Tennessee
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 351 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances of the victims are relevant to the crime as a whole. The victims cannot be separated from the crime.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The criterion for determining whether the state should have provided the name of a witness called for rebuttal is whether the state reasonably should have anticipated that it was likely to call the witness, whether during its case in chief or in rebuttal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a duty to provide the names of witnesses that he reasonably did not anticipate would testify until testimony was presented by appellant which was then properly rebutted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.