State v. Hedger’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
367 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 367 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Brown (1992), Lunneborg v. My Fun Life, Corp. (2018)
367 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 State v. Reinke · State v. Rose · State v. Campbell · Associates Northwest, Inc. v. Beets · State v. Urquhart
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 367 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the trial court correctly perceived the issue as one of discretion; (2) whether the trial court acted within the outer boundaries of its discretion and consistently with the legal standards applicable to the specific choices available to it; and (3) whether the trial court reached its decision by an exercise of reason.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“Error in admission of evidence may be cured by proper instruction, and it must be presumed that the jury obeyed the trial court's direction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I made double sure since the time Marvin [the defendant] had gotten out of jail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bingham
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.