State v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 709 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 716 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Hunter (2011), 161 Ohio St. 3d 285 - State v. Henderson (Slip Opinion) (2020)
2 federal appellate · 709 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 716 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or of judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether in resolving conflicts in the evidence, the jury clearly lost its way and created such a manifest miscarriage of justice that the conviction must be reversed.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“guarantee does not implicate affirmative defenses, because proof supportive of an affirmative defense cannot detract from proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused had committed the requisite elements of the crime.'”
10 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.