Lane v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Johnson v. State (2002), Rankin v. State (1998)
120 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Colorado v. Connelly · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Spano v. People of the State of New York
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) How compellingly evidence of the extraneous misconduct serves to make more or less probable a fact of consequence, (2) The potential for the “other crime, wrong, or act” has to impress the jury in some irrational but indelible way, (3) How much trial time the proponent needs to develop the evidence of the extraneous offense, and (4) The proponent’s need for the extraneous offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jabari v. State · Wheeler v. State“All the transactions took place at night, in the same area, within a period of one month. In each case appellant was alone and carried a small gun. The victims were tied in a similar manner, and robbery preceded rape in the four instances in which the victim was raped. Appellant took all coins but pennies from the victims who had coins.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Booker v. State · Karnes v. State“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Page v. State · Jesse Beam v. State
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.