State v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2018
24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 James Graham v. State of West Virginia
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In our opinion, the words `criminal prosecution,' as set forth in Article I, Section 11 of our constitution, refer to establishing before a jury acts declared to be criminal by legislative action. Since proof of prior crimes is not a proper matter in an indictment for a present crime, but only proof that prior punishment has not been effective to reform the person, the defendant was not entitled to a jury trial relative to his prior convictions. * * *" 236 Or. at 107 , 385 P.2d at 741 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quinn · State v. Dulfu“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to public trial by an impartial jury * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quinn · State v. Dulfu“The duty of determining the extent of the penalty to be imposed in a criminal case * * * is by law imposed upon the trial judge. The extent of that punishment is legislative, limited only by the constitutional prohibition against cruel and inhuman punishment.”
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.