Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), Hain v. Gibson (2002)
6 federal appellate · 24 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. Denno · Colorado v. Connelly · Hamling v. United States · Dusky v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is not enough for the district judge to find that `the defendant [is] oriented to time and place and [has] some recollection of events,' but the `test must be whether he has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tate v. State · Hatch v. Oklahoma“without proper notice is without merit. The Information contained the essential elements of the crimes charged and was sufficient to bar future prosecution for those offenses. Application of the transferred intent doctrine directly related to the relevant mens rea element of Appellant's Count 2 charge of malice murder. The application of the doctrine did not create a new and different crime. Moreover, Appellant has failed to demonstrate that he was misled----to his detriment----by the Information. Based on the circumstances of this case as well as the record, Appellant cannot”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JACKSON v. STATE“he would never have willingly admitted to the jury that he committed a crime which would have resulted in his receiving the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hain v. Gibson
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.