Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably 358 So. 2d 1040 - Bankston v. State (1978), United States v. Peterson (1973)
4 federal appellate · 60 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 Storey v. State · Miller v. State · Jones v. State · Johnson v. State · Suell v. Derricott
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is not ironclad; that it does not require perfect precision as to either time, place, persons present, or the statement made. The predicate is sufficient when it is clear that the witness is not taken by surprise, and is afforded ample opportunity to make any explanation desired, and is sufficient to authorize proof of contradictory statements. 2 Brick. Dig. 548.” Ex parte Phillips, 188 Ala. 57, 59 , 66 South. 3 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bigham v. State
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.