Light v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
December 2003
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 23 U.S.C. § 130 · 23 U.S.C. § 144 · 23 U.S.C. § 152 · 23 U.S.C. § 409
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from providing an additional, virtually no-work tool for direct use in private litigation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“facilitate candor in administrative evaluations of highway safety hazards,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compiled or collected for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, or planning the safety enhancement of potential accident sites, hazardous roadway conditions, or railway-highway crossings, pursuant to sections 130, 144 and 152 of the title”
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.