State v. Lira’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2011
15 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 Mathews v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · State v. Santiago · State v. O'DANIEL · Hazel 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant in a criminal case tried before a jury is entitled to an instruction on every defense or theory of defense having any support in the evidence, no matter how weak, inconclusive or unsatisfactory the evidence may be.... The applicable test, therefore, is one of presence or an absence of evidentiary support for a defense, not one of a consistency of defens-es_ [A] defendant has the right to argue inconsistent defenses and he would be entitled to have the jury instructed on ostensibly inconsistent theories of defense if there is evidence supporting the theories. He would be entitled also to an instruction on a defense fairly raised by the evidence, though it may be inconsistent with the defense he advanced at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pavao · State v. Kikuta“The applicable test ... is one of presence or an absence of evidentiary support for a defense, not one of a consistency of defenses.... [A] defendant has the right to argue inconsistent defenses and he [or she] would be entitled to have the jury instructed on ostensibly inconsistent theories of defense if there is evidence supporting the theories. He [or she] would be entitled also to an instruction on a defense fairly raised by the evidence, though it may be inconsistent with the defense he advanced at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ito
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.