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← 835 S.W.2d 933 - State v. Light

State v. Light’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited

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.

  1. “[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 passage
  2. “means cool reflection for any length of time no matter how brief.”
    2 later decisions 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.