Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Bridges v. State (1969), Desilvey v. State (1943)
2 federal appellate · 124 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 Sanders v. State · Winslow v. State · Patterson v. State · Ryan v. State · Spears 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)f any facts are shown from which the jury may reasonably infer that the crime has been committed, the question must be submitted to the jury, and other evidence tending to implicate the accused is thereby rendered admissible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he extra-judicial confessions of the prisoner, not corroborated by independent proof of the corpus delicti, will not justify a conviction for felony. . . . Nor must we be understood as affirming that the proof of the corpus delicti must be as full and conclusive as would be essential if there was no confession to corroborate it. . . . Evidence of facts and circumstances, attending the particular offense, and usually attending the commission of similar offenses — or of facts to the discovery of which the confession has led, and which would not probably have existed if the offense had not been committed — or of facts having a just tendency to lead the mind to the conclusion that the offense has been committed — would be admissible to corroborate the confession. The weight which would be accorded them, when connected with the confession, the jury must determine, under proper instructions from the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In every criminal prosecution the burden is on the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime charged has been in fact committed, and that the accused is the person who committed it. Winslow v. State, 76 Ala. 42, 47 [ (1884) ]; Smith v. State, 133 Ala. 145, 150 , 31 So. 806 , 91 Am.St.Rep. 21 [ (1902) ]; Perry v. State, 155 Ala. 93 , 46 So. 470 [ (1908) ]; Sanders v. State, 167 Ala. 85 , 52 So. 417 , 28 L.R.A.(N.S.), 536 [(1910)].””
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.