Lafevers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2012
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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Richardson v. Marsh · Woodson v. North Carolina · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not enough that the defenses of the co-defendants are inconsistent, in conflict or are otherwise unreconcilable. To be considered `mutually antagonistic,' the two theories of defense must be in direct contravention and the parties must each place blame with the co-defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa v. State“whatever the charge against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spunaugle v. State
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.