Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
December 2005
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. State · Modesitt v. State · Wethington v. State · Buttram v. State · Light 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who, by means of fire or explosive, knowingly or intentionally damages ... property of any person under circumstances that endanger human life ... commits arson, a Class B felony. However, the offense is a Class A felony if it results in either bodily injury or serious bodily injury to any person other than a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faulisi v. State“[TJhe definition of arson does not require injury to a person. Rather, the result of bodily injury (or serious bodily injury) elevates arson from a Class B to a Class A felony. If the legislature had intended multiple egregious results to increase the number of crimes rather than the penalty, it could have done so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathews 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.