Hogan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably Gustine v. State (1923), 463 So. 2d 1087 - Hester v. State (1985)
29 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 Algheri v. State · John v. State · Caleb v. State · Taylor 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘While circumstantial evidence is in its nature capable of producing the highest degree of moral certainty, yet experience and authority both admonish us that it is a species of evidence in the application of which the utmost caution and vigilance should be used. . . . It is always insufficient where, assuming all to be proved which the evidence tends to prove, some other hypothesis may still be true, for it is the actual exclusion of every other hypothesis which invests mere circumstances with the force of truth. Whenever, therefore, the evidence leaves it indifferent which of several hypotheses is true, or merely establishes some finite probability in favor of one hypothesis rather than another, such evidence cannot amount to proof, however great the probability may be.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To say the most of it, conceding the facts testified to in the record all to be true, and drawing all logical deductions therefrom, it only shows a mere probability that the defendant was the guilty agent. It certainly does not comply with the rule of excluding every other reasonable hypothesis, nor does it remove all reasonable doubt as required by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. State
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.