Hightower v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2013
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Robinson v. State · Smith v. Francis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conviction of one defendant does not necessarily require conviction of the other. You, the jury, must determine the guilt or innocence of each defendant separately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State“[V]iewing the jury instructions as a whole, [cit.], there is no reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard 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.