State v. Hilgers’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Noack (2007), Klose v. State (2008)
28 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 Strickland v. Washington · Garcia v. State · State v. DuPaul · Syvertson v. State · Flattum-Riemers v. Flattum-Riemers
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court abuses its discretion only when it acts in an arbitrary, unreasonable, or capricious manner, or misinterprets or misapplies the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of Dcshc“We will not reverse a trial court's decision to deny a continuance absent an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of Dcshc
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.