State v. Hinckley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
313 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 313 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. (1990), State v. Leecan (1986)
313 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · McMann v. Richardson · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Pate v. Robinson · Cupp v. Naughten
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 313 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an example of an extraordinary [situation] where the existence of the error is so obvious that it affects the fairness and integrity of and public confidence in the judicial proceedings.”
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.