State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Hunter (2011)
141 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · State v. Jenks · United States v. Mendenhall
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only where the evidence presented at trial would reasonably support both an acquittal on the crime charged and a conviction upon the lesser included offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]enetration is not required to commit cunnilingus. Rather, the act of cunnilingus is completed by the placing of one's mouth on the female's genitals.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether * * * remarks [made by the prosecutor] were improper and, if so, whether they prejudicially affected the accused's substantial rights.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.