Lloyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Bolden v. State (1981), Etcheverry v. State (1991)
38 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 Silks v. State · State v. Iaukea · Geary v. State · Allen v. State · Wheeler v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n abuse of discretion will be found only when the record demonstrates 'prejudice resulting from consideration of information or accusations founded on facts supported only by impalpable or highly suspect evidence . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ut is improper for an attorney to argue legal theories to a jury when the jury has not been instructed on those theories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.