Hyde v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Ingram v. State (1984), Spaulding v. State (1974)
54 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 Rawlins v. State · Williams v. State · Calhoun v. State · Manchester v. State · Taylor 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So far as appears, this was but an effort in good faith to present genuine signatures for comparison by the jury; and unless we assume that the jury in violation of their duty and of their oaths disregarded the instructions of the court, we can not reach the conclusion that prejudicial error was committed. It may be true. . . that signatures of the defendant could have been found elsewhere or on other documents; but on this subject the record is silent.” (Emphasis supplied.) Hyde v. State, supra, 486-487. Here, however, unlike Hyde, the record is not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.