Lowe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
October 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 196th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Almanza v. State · Clewis v. State · Johnson v. State · Thompson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By defining the term ‘reasonable belief as it did, the court instructed the jury that a reasonable apprehension of danger, whether it be actual or apparent, is all that is required before one is entitled to exercise the right of self-defense against his adversary.” Id. And we observed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. State
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.