Lighteard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 175th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Ake v. Oklahoma · Cain v. State · Rey v. State · De Freece 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept for certain federal constitutional errors labeled by the United States Supreme Court as 'structural,' no error . . . is categorically immune to a harmless error analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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