State v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Hancock (2006), State v. Maxwell (2014)
14 federal appellate · 91 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Patterson v. New York · Atkins v. Virginia · Speiser v. Randall · State v. Perry · Ford v. Wainwright
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant limitations in two or more adaptive skills, such as communication, self-care, and self-direction,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant is not mentally retarded if his or her IQ is above 70.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e believe that these matters should be decided by the court and do not represent a jury question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.