841 So. 2d 623 - Light v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State · 837 So. 2d 366 - Reed v. State · 561 So. 2d 576 - State v. Ellison · 143 Ohio App. 3d 482 - Adams v. Metallica, Inc. · 495 So. 2d 197 - Dellinger 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person of ordinary judgment would know is reasonably certain to kill or do serious bodily injury to another; and (2) is done from ill will, hatred, spite or an evil intent; and (3) is of such a nature that the act itself indicates an indifference to human life.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State · Rasley v. State“(1) The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification according to the provisions of chapter 776 and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder, according to the provisions of this chapter, is manslaughter, a felony of the second degree....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rasley v. State“[t]he unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual.”
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.