Hulsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994 · most notably Beed v. State (1980), Calhoun v. State (1983)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Jackson v. Denno · Gregg v. Georgia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Woodson v. North Carolina · Estelle v. Williams
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant contends the trial court placed an unconstitutional burden upon him when it instructed the jury it might consider five or more mitigating circumstances. ****** At trial counsel stated: “Your Honor, they [the instructions] are good for the defendant.” Appellant by failing to object to the instructions cannot now raise the issue on appeal even though this is a capital case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the ease at bar the issue of guilt of the crime charged had already been resolved against appellant before mitigating circumstances were considered by the jury. Proof of all the essential elements of the crime was required and the jury found appellant guilty. Thus, the holding of Mullaney [v. Wilbur, supra ] is not applicable under these facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not view the court’s instruction here as an erroneous one since it does not change the burden of proof as to the essential elements of the crime which always remain on the State; only the burden of persuasion as to the affirmative defense is placed on the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. State
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.