State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Ramsey (1993), State v. Richardson (1996)
1 federal appellate · 42 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 Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Dufour v. Mississippi · State v. Strickland · State v. Robinson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“charged with one offense, or with one form of an offense, and convicted of another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Grand Jurors of the County of Jackson, State of Missouri charge the defendant, Marshall A. Tillman, in violation of Section 565.020 RSMo, committed the Class A Felony of Murder in the First Degree, punishable by conviction under Section 565.020 RSMo, in that between and including August 25, 1987 and August 26, 1987, in the County of Jackson, State of Missouri, the defendant, after deliberation, knowingly caused the death of [the victim] by strangling her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tillman“A variance alone is not conclusive to the question of whether there is reversible error_ [A] variance, to justify reversal, should be material and prejudicial to the rights of the accused.... A variance is prejudicial only if it affects the [accused’s] ability adequately to defend against the charges presented in the information and given to the jury in the instructions....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.