People v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Taylor v. Kentucky (1978), People v. McKnight (1980)
32 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 Coffin v. United States · People v. Barker · People v. District Court for County of Jefferson · United States v. Burl A. Sawyers, Vincent J. Johnkoski, Bonn Brown, Alfred W. Schroath · United States v. Williams
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption of innocence has meaning independent of the concept of proof beyond a reasonable doubt which relates to the burden of proof .... The instruction on the presumption ... is salutary. It guarantees that the defendant’s liberty will not be lost precipitously and that the state will be put to the proper test in securing a conviction in a criminal case. Such an important concept is not to be minimized or to be denied to a defendant .... We cannot assume that the jury based its decision on matters of law on which it was not properly instructed.” (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. People · People v. Aragon“should be given effect by you unless, after considering all the evidence, you are then convinced that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the requirement that the prosecution ... must establish the guilt of the accused by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.