State v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Prioleau (1995), State v. Cooper (1993)
70 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Delaware v. Fensterer · Briggs v. Connecticut · State v. Sharpe · State v. Vitale
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant must ... present evidence that directly connects a third party to the crime with which the defendant has been charged .... It is not enough to show that another had the motive to commit the crime ... nor is it enough to raise a bare suspicion that some other person may have committed the crime of which the defendant is accused.”
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.