State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
16 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 30 Utah 2d 54 - State v. Valdez · Hulsey v. Arkansas · State v. Pierre · State v. Johnson · State v. Troy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The grant or denial of severance is a matter within the discretion of the trial judge, so we reverse a conviction only if the trial judge's refusal to sever ... is a clear abuse of discretion in that it sacrifices the defendant's right to a fundamentally fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Balfour · State v. Jok“need not be proved by direct evidence, but may be inferred from defendant’s conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Lemons“(1) Two or more felonies, misdemeanors, or both, may be charged in the same indictment or information if each offense is a separate count and if the offenses charged are: (a) based on the same conduct or are otherwise connected together in their commission; or (b) alleged to have been part of a common scheme or plan. [[Image here]] (3) (a) The court may order two or more indictments or informations or both to be tried together if the offenses, and the defendants, if there is more than one, could have been joined in a single indictment or information. (b) The procedure shall be the same as if the prosecution were under a single indictment or information. (4) (a) If the court finds a defendant or the prosecution is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or defendants in an indictment or information or by a joinder for trial together, the court shall order an election of separate trials of separate counts, grant a severance of defendants, or provide other relief as justice requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scales
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.