State v. Hardwick’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Henderson (2005), State v. Ramsey (2005)
31 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 Delaware v. New York · Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc. · Copeland v. United States · State v. Bible · Brogdon v. Louisiana
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has been held that there is no fifth amendment violation in a trial court considering at sentencing a defendant's failure to confess to crimes of which he has been convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson“[I]t would be irrational or disingenuous to expect or require one who maintains his innocence to express contrition or remorse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henderson
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.