State v. Lindsey’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 440 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 442 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), State v. Hartman (2001)
2 federal appellate · 440 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · State v. Bradley
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 442 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exceptional case in which the evidence weighs heavily against a conviction.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“`exceptional case in which the evidence weighs heavily against conviction.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain error consists of an obvious error or defect in the trial proceedings that affects a substantial right.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.