State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Ortega (1998), Yale v. City of Independence (1993)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 State v. Preston · State Ex Rel. Wagner v. Ruddy · State v. Bachman · State v. Acton · State v. Kelley
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who has been convicted of a crime is, notwithstanding, a competent witness; however, any prior criminal convictions may be proved to affect his credibility in a civil or criminal case and, further, any prior pleas of guilty, pleas of nolo contendere, and findings of guilty may be proved to affect his credibility in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Prell
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.