Light v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Bivins v. State (1995), State v. Rogers (2009)
56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Colorado v. Connelly · Malloy v. Hogan · Oregon v. Elstad · North Carolina v. Butler
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court further instructs you that you should not indulge in purely speculative doubts, and the bare possibility that the defendant may be innocent does not raise a reasonable doubt. The question of defendant's guilt must be determined by each of you in view of your obligation to act honestly and fairly in weighing the evidence and reaching a decision which your oath imposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markley v. State“[a] review of voluntariness of statements made during a custodial interrogation involves looking at all the evidence. Among the considerations are the defendant's low level of intelligence, inconsisten-cles in the defendant's statement, explicit or implicit promises by police interrogators, and the coercive nature of the interrogation atmosphere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bivins v. State“Otherwise inadmissible hearsay is admissible when the testimony is not offered for the truth of the matter asserted therein, but to show the declarant's state of mind when it is in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mundy v. Angelicchio
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.