Lugo-Lugo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), Hernandez v. State (1991)
4 federal appellate · 78 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 American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Clark v. State · Standley v. State · Ex Parte Ross · Dovalina 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Murray v. State · Gardner v. State“[T]he Defendant ... did then and there unlawfully intend to cause serious bodily injury to BOBBY LEE NENTWIG, and did cause the death of Complainant by committing an act clearly dangerous to human life, namely, stabbing him with a knife.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. State · Ojeda v. State“(a) A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Harrell v. State · Morrow 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.