State v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2022
6 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Washington v. Texas · Brooks v. Tennessee · Holder v. United States · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. As a matter of right. On its own motion the court may, and on request of a party the court shall, order that the witnesses be excluded from the courtroom or from a place where they can see or hear the proceedings, and refrain from discussing the facts of the case with anyone other than counsel in the case. In the interests of justice, the court may exempt any witness from its order of exclusion. B. Exceptions. This Article does not authorize exclusion of any of the following: . . . (4) The victim of the offense or the family of the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he mere fact that a witness speaks to other witnesses does not establish a violation of the order of sequestration”
1 later decision 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.