State v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Williams · Jones v. Howard · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Bottoson v. Florida · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person 'acts knowingly' ... [w]ith respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause that result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flieger v. Delo · Flieger v. Delo“means cool reflection for any length of time no matter how brief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flieger v. Delo · Flieger v. Delo
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.