Hackett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Morgan v. State (1981), Coonan v. State (1978)
77 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 In re Oliver · Estes v. Texas · Maldonado v. State · Gaddis v. State · United States v. Barber
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All attorneys should act in a manner reflecting the integrity and dignity of the legal profession at all times, as officers of the court should. They should be temperate and dignified in their conduct. But for a prosecutor’s conduct to be grounds for reversal, it must be so inflammatory or so prejudicial in its persuasive effect as to have placed the defendant in grave peril. Maldonado v. State (1976), [265] Ind. [492], 355 N.E.2d 843 ____””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Instructions which deal with the credibility of witnesses should generally not be so worded as to single out the testimony of any specific witness, but should apply equally to all witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinds v. State“signal special attention upon the testimony of a single eyewitness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madden 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.