Hunter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably McGautha v. California (1971), State v. Dykes (1990)
100 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We would feel it hypercritical, indeed, to say that these defendants have not been afforded a reasonable and sufficient record.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is thoroughly settled, under our practice, that objectionable argument or im proper remarks of counsel afford no ground for a new trial, where no objection is made or exception taken at the time of the argument, (citing cases).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rye v. State“clearly prejudiced to the point that the trial court's discretion ended and the granting of [a] severance became a judicial duty.”
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.