State v. Hackney’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably State v. Greene (1974), State v. Bryant (1972)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 Betts v. Brady · Avery v. State of Alabama · Uveges v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Palmer v. Ashe · United States Hughes v. Gault U S
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A preliminary hearing is not an essential prerequisite to the finding of an indictment in this jurisdiction. ‘We have no statute requiring a preliminary hearing, nor does the State Constitution require it. It was proper to try the petitioner upon a bill of indictment without a preliminary hearing.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gasque v. State · State v. Hartsell
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.