Hobbs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2000
20 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Wade v. Hunter · Civil Aeronautics Board v. Summerfield · Tribble v. State · Watkins 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A peremptory challenge is an arbitrary or capricious species of challenge to a certain number of jurors allowed to the parties without the necessity of their showing any cause therefor. In the very nature of such a challenge no reason need be shown or assigned for the exercise of the right.” Hobbs v. State, 229 Ga. 556 (6) ( 192 SE2d 903 ) (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. State“Code § 59-805 allows the defendant the privilege of peremptorily challenging 20 of the jurors.”
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.