Heard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Woodard v. State (2015), Burgess v. State (1994)
25 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. Virginia · Head v. State · Jolley v. State · Scott v. State · Myers v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient evidence of a confrontation between the defendant and the victim, or other circumstances which ordinarily would support a charge on justification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unfair and illogical to deny a defendant the defense of justification against a felony murder charge merely because of his status as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. State“he happened to have 1.1 ounces of marijuana in his pocket when he killed someone while trying to defend himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis 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.