Hardy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1983
10 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 Garber v. Wright Cast Stone, Co. · Warren 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be observed that both of these instructions omit the necessary qualification that in order for appellant's guilt to appear beyond a reasonable doubt "the evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with his innocence." In a case such as this where the evidence is entirely circumstantial, the instruction or instructions must include the above-quoted qualification else the verdict and judgment must be reversed. (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.