Hendrix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1997 · most notably State v. Hutchinson (1980), Bryant v. State (1991)
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 Apple v. State · Auchincloss v. State · People v. . Elliott · J. S. Ditch & Bros. v. Western National Bank · Standard Scale & Supply Co. v. Baltimore Enamel & Novelty Co.
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.
“Whatever `plain error material to the rights of the accused' may include, it does not include bad guesses by counsel whether or not to object to anything done or left undone by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hutchinson
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.