State v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
June 2016
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Allison v. United States · United States v. Myers · Allen v. Oklahoma · State v. Smith
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the mandatory imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for second degree murder does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Craig
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.