Hardin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably State Ex Rel. Reed v. Heer (1966), Braziel v. State (1975)
86 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 McNabb v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Marable v. State · Patmore v. State · Raymond v. Merchants' State Bank & Trust Co. of Laredo
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case depends entirely upon circumstantial evidence to establish both the corpus delicti and the criminal agency of the accused. [This case] is no different from any other fact case wherein circumstantial evidence is necessary for conviction. In Marable v. State, 203 Tenn. 440 , 313 S.W.2d 451 , we attempted at some length to set forth the necessary rules to be followed in establishing a case on circumstantial evidence. Briefly, it is necessary in such a case that all the essential facts must be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, that is to be compared with all other facts proved; that the facts must exclude every other reasonable theory or hypothesis except that of guilt; and the facts must establish such a certainty of guilt of the accused as to convince the mind beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is the one who committed the offense.” Hardin v. State, 210 Tenn. 116 , 355 S.W.2d 105 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The principle upon which the decisions in these cases rest is that two or more separate offenses which are committed at the same time and are parts of a single continuing criminal act, inspired by the same criminal intent which is essential to each offense, are susceptible to but one punishment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It would be the grossest folly to demand a separate trial under each indictment where they both grow out of an identical situation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State
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.