Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 76 Ill. 2d 289 - People v. Taylor (1979), Robert E. v. JUSTICE COURT OF RENO TP. (1983)
47 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Kent v. United States · People v. Shipp · State Ex Rel. Londerholm v. Owens · Green v. United States · State v. Doyal
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The considerations that might so move a judge [in a waiver proceeding] are so multifarious, however, that to test the validity of legislation by an omission to list them would be almost equivalent to attempting to name all the advantages of being upright and good.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stanley
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.