Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2019
14 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 Barker v. Wingo · Zafiro v. United States · Mitchem v. State · Akins v. State · Lampkins 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now maybe as Mr. Mitchem suggested, things didn't go as planned. Dorian Lee decided to go and do something that was not intended. Maybe we heard Little Vic apparently talk back to him, and maybe Mr. Lee thought that was justification for changing the plans and actually shooting somebody. But what was the intent of Mr. Greer? Was he doing things knowing that [Lee] was now serious, that these weren't just threats to scare these folks to intimidate them, but now Mr. Lee had changed the scheme, it was now I am going to take somebody out. [Tr. R. Vol. VI at 1539.] ... The murder's the same thing. Did Michael Greer know that Dorian Lee had changed the plan? [ Id. at 1540.] ... Michael Greer is the one that once some shots were fired said, "Let's go, let's go." And he left. I suggest that shows this was-he suddenly found himself in a situation that he did not expect. But it had suddenly become real. It wasn't just plan and scaring people, somebody had changed the rules, upped the ante a lot, and he got out of there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While an important element of a fair trial is that a jury consider only relevant and competent evidence bearing on the issue of guilt or innocence, ... a fair trial does not include the right to exclude relevant and competent evidence. A defendant normally would not be entitled to exclude the testimony of a former codefendant if the district court did sever their trials, and we see no reason why relevant and competent testimony would be prejudicial merely because the witness is also a codefendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kendall v. State“On June 12, 1995, [Lee], along with two armed men, Terrance Mitchem and Michael Greer, broke and entered a home occupied by four adults. [Lee] raped one of the female victims and participated in the shooting of all four victims. One victim was killed, 1 while the other three survived. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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