Hittson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably DeYoung v. State (1997), McClain v. State (1996)
2 federal appellate · 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 · Estelle v. Smith · Buchanan v. Kentucky · Jarrell v. State · Isaacs 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Plain error" is that which is "so clearly erroneous as to result in a likelihood of a grave miscarriage of justice" or which "seriously affects the fairness, integrity[,] or public reputation of a judicial proceeding." [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Henry v. State“Except in cases of `plain error,' assertions of error not timely raised on appeal are deemed waived. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Henry 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.