State v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably State v. Shane (1992), Sells v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 State v. Ramirez · Smith v. State · State v. Wright · Martinez v. State · State v. Gallegos
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless there is evidence that the defendant could not have formed the requisite intent, the diminished responsibility instruction is improper.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“had the ability to form the deliberate intention to take away the life of another”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jury is not to concern themselves with the consequences of their verdict. They are to patiently and dispassionately weigh the evidence and arrive at a verdict in accordance with the law as given to them by the court. To instruct them on the consequences of their verdict would add an element to their deliberations that is not proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neely
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.