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Hightower v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Vega v. State · Regent v. State · Watson 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “two separate rounds of gunshots-the first when the car was in the driveway and rolling toward the ditch, and the second after the car had crashed into the ditch”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.