State v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Hickman (1998), Roberson v. Perez (2005)
47 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 Jackson v. Virginia · North Carolina v. Pearce · Alabama v. Smith · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 110 Wash. 2d 32 - State v. Ng
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McPherson · State v. Silva“[J]ury instructions not objected to become the law of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In criminal cases, the State assumes the burden of proving otherwise unnecessary elements of the offense when such added elements are included without objection in the 'to convict' instruction.”
2 later decisions 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.