Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
June 1997
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alvarado v. State · Beggs v. State · Human v. State · Hall v. State · Plessinger 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of the phrase “intentionally and knowingly engage in conduct that caused serious bodily injury” should be taken to mean and is an allegation that it was the Defendant’s conscious objective or desire to cause serious bodily injury and that the Defendant was aware that his conduct was reasonably certain to cause serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Westfall 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.