State v. Lessin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. White (2015), State v. Hackett (Slip Opinion) (2020)
188 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 United States v. O'Brien · State v. Adams · Texas v. Johnson · Brandenburg v. Ohio · Williams v. State of North Carolina
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fully and completely give the jury all instructions which are relevant and necessary for the jury to weigh the evidence and discharge its duty as the fact finder.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a correct, pertinent statement of the law and [is] appropriate to the facts * * *.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
5 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.