Bright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pennington 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appellant was seventeen years and seven months old at the time of the crimes, and has now reached his 18th birthday. A person who has reached his 18th birthday cannot be committed to a youth services center. Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-331 (a)(1) and 9-28-209(a)(1) (Supp. 1991).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Heagerty v. State · Hogan v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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