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← 771 SW2D 865 - State v. Applewhite

State v. Applewhite’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Swopes (2018), State v. Root (1991)

1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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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 State v. Brown · State v. Gilmore · State v. Sullivan · State v. Jackson · State v. Sanders

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A person ‘acts recklessly’ or is reckless when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that circumstances exist or that a result will follow, and such disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Coates · State v. Carlson
  2. “[Defendant, in violation of Section 565.060, RSMo, committed the class C felony of assault in the second degree ... in that on or about May 14, 1991, in the County of Benton, State of Missouri, the defendant recklessly caused serious physical injury to Deborah Jean Turner, by recklessly operating a motor vehicle in such a manner that said automobile wrecked, which resulted in the death of Deborah Jean Turner.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Coates

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.