Hunter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably State v. Frazier (1984), Bryant v. State (1991)
40 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 Thomas v. United States · Nelson v. Seiler · Commonwealth v. Quaranta · Berger v. State · Campbell v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no question that the granting or refusal of a motion for a continuance or for fixing the date for a trial rests within the sound discretion of the trial court, and will not be disturbed except for arbitrary action or clear abuse of judicial discretion.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Frazier
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.