Lamb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Spears v. Mullin (2003), McGregor v. State (1994)
5 federal appellate · 26 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 Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Darden v. Wainwright · Brogie v. State · Brewer v. State · Glass 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[elvidence of previous altercations between an appellant and a deceased is relevant to establish motive, malice, or intent, 'even though such evidence constitutes evidence of another crime'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Itlhe relevance of testimony showing ill feeling, threats, or similar conduct by one spouse toward another in a marital homicide case has been established by this Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury is to be instructed on every degree of homicide which the evidence in any reasonable view suggests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.