State v. Hoeffel’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Pisio (1994), State v. Gardner (1998)
28 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 Rock v. Arkansas · Heath v. Alabama · United States v. Dion · Payne v. Wood · State v. Sutphin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rior civil judgments are inadmissible, except to the limited extent provided by the exception for judgments as to personal, family or general history or boundaries... . Civil judgments are not given evidentiary effect because the lower burden of proof makes them less reliable than criminal judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there appears to be little support for the use of civil judgments as evidence of the facts found”
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.