State v. Hurlburt’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably State v. Stayman (1994), In re Baby K. (1998)
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 North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Goodwin · Alabama v. Smith · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We decline to find that there exists a `reasonable likelihood' that a sentencing judge who was not involved in the first trial would increase the sentence for the sake of vindicating a fellow judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he better practice is for trial judges to articulate specific reasons when they impose a second sentence harsher than the first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Willey
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.