State v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Kesselring (2005), State v. White (2007)
2 district · 29 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director · State v. Ruebke · State v. Hodges · State v. Tyler
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“history of violence [between the deceased and the third person] could not turn the killing into a situation of imminent danger”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rational factfinder could not find that Hernandez acted in defense of his sister, Myra, at the time he shot Randy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haygood“the term 'imminent' describes a broader time frame than immediate,”
1 later decision 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.