State v. Hills’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 327 So. 2d 301 - State v. Nix (1975), 559 So. 2d 1310 - State v. Lee (1990)
138 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 State v. Henry · State v. Higgs · American Refining Co. v. United States · State v. Dunn · State v. Rodosta
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the scope of inquiry is best governed by a liberal discretion on the part of the court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boen · State v. Shepard“"The purpose of voir dire examination is to determine the qualifications of the prospective juror to serve in the case. Article 786 C.Cr.P. In order to accomplish this purpose, the scope of inquiry should be broad enough to permit parties to question jurors not only for the purpose of showing grounds for a challenge for cause, but also, within reasonable limits, to elicit such facts as will enable them to intelligently and wisely exercise their right of peremptory challenge."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.