State v. Hensley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably State v. Fulminante (1989), State v. Fierroa (1990)
2 federal appellate · 68 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence admitted at the trial, relating to such aggravating or mitigating circumstances, shall be considered without reintroducing it at the sentencing proceeding,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Canez“merely cumulative of other, overwhelming evidence on the same point”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Fulminante
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.