Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Barnes v. State (1998), McClain v. State (1996)
10 federal appellate · 54 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Duren v. Missouri
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The explanation offered for striking each black [prospective] juror must be evaluated in light of the explanations offered for the [State's] other peremptory strikes .... The persuasiveness of a proffered explanation may be magnified or diminished by the persuasiveness of companion explanations.... A court charged with the duty of determining whether the prosecutor has rebutted a prima facie case may be less troubled by one relatively weak explanation for striking a black [prospective] juror when all the remaining explanations are persuasive than where several of the prosecutor's proffered justifications are questionable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. State“Counsel may bring to his use in the discussion of the case well-established historical facts and may allude to such principles of divine law relating to transactions of men as may be appropriate to the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it would be improper ... to urge that the teachings of a particular religion command the imposition of a death penalty in the case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. King 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.