Lamb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Livingston v. State (1987), Allridge v. State (1988)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Jackson v. Denno · Hawkins v. State · Jurek v. State · Cobarrubio v. State · Luck 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all prosecutions for murder or voluntary manslaughter, the state or the defendant shall be permitted to offer testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing and the previous relationship existing between the accused and the deceased, together with all relevant facts and circumstances going to show the condition of the mind of the accused at the time of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““_Denton Alan Crank_did_ while in the course of committing and attempting to commit the robbery of SHIRLEY POTEET, intentionally cause the death of TERRY ORINGDERFF.... by shooting the Complainant with a gun.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Quarterman · Crank v. State“An offense is a lesser included offense if: * # ⅜ * # * (3)it differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less culpable mental state suffices to establish its commission ... A conviction of capital murder as charged in this case must rest on proof that: (1) appellant (2) intentionally (3) committed murder (4) in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery. On the other hand, a conviction of felony murder as charged requires proof that: (1) the appellant (2) committed or attempted to commit a felony (robbery) (3) and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt to com - mit the felony (robbery) (4) defendant committed an act clearly dangerous to human life (5) that caused the death of an individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallegos v. State
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.