State v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Kansas v. Marsh (2006), State v. Kleypas (2001)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Bourjaily v. United States · Payne v. Tennessee · Idaho v. Wright · Walton v. Arizona
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of Hoffman’s objection, there was evidence that Holmes was Hoffman’s leader and that Hoffman lived at Holmes’ residence and worked in Holmes’ drug operation. There was also testimony at that time that Hoffman was with Holmes when Wages was dropped off at the Boy Scout Camp. Later testimony established that, acting for Holmes, Hoffman conducted a strip search of Longstreet and Slawson to protect Holmes. It was also established that Hoffman drove Williams to Holmes after she had been kidnaped and that Holmes told Hoffman, ‘You know what to do,” when it came time to take Williams away Hoffman- had Williams prepare letters exonerating Holmes. Finally, there was evidence that Hoffman told other inmates while he was in jail that he and Holmes had planned to get rid of Williams and that Holmes had offered him $10,000 and some property to kill her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““So long as a State’s method of allocating the burdens of proof does not lessen the State’s burden to prove every element of the offense charged, or in this case to prove the existence of aggravating circumstances, a defendant’s constitutional rights are not violated by placing on him the burden of proving mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to call for leniency.” 497 U.S. at 650 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kleypas“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor, and (2) Whether the evidence supports the judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance from among those enumerated in section 19-2515, Idaho Code, and (3) Whether the sentence of death is excessive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter
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.