State v. Lachterman’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Bernard (1993), Lannan v. State (1992)
33 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 Illinois v. Gates · Stanford v. Texas · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · WCLR Radio Station v. Rengers · Graham v. Commissioner
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We view such conduct as so unnatural and depraved that regardless of the relationship or similarity of status between the victim and other children subjected to like sexual abuse by the defendant, evidence that the defendant engaged in similar acts of sexual abuse of children of the same sex as the victim near in time to the acts charged tends to prove the defendant’s guilt of the crime on trial. Evidence of repeated acts of sexual abuse of children demonstrates, per se, a propensity for sexual aberration and a depraved sexual instinct and should be recognized as an additional, distinct exception to the rule against the admission of evidence of uncharged crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnard“A punishment within statutory limits cannot as a matter of law be held cruel and unusual when the statute authorizing the punishment is not invalid; when punishment imposed is within the range prescribed by statute, it cannot be judged excessive by the appellate court; and where defendant is convicted of separate offenses and the sentences imposed are within statutory limits, consecutive effect of the sentences does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham“In a prosecution of sodomy of a child, the name by which body parts are identified is a “collateral matter” State v. Webb, 737 S.W.2d 197, 200 (Mo.App.1987), of no material significance under all the evidence in the case. Despite [the victim’s] lack of specificity it is clear he was describing the defendant touching his penis with his mouth and requiring him to touch defendant’s penis with his hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ray
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.