Hoffa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Carswell v. State (1999), Hutchinson v. State (1982)
68 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 State Ex Rel. Gash v. Morgan County Superior Court · Hoffa 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that a criminal conviction precede revocation of probation for unlawful conduct; it is only necessary that the trial judge, after a hearing, finds such conduct to have occurred.” 1”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[0]ur trial court’s power to suspend the sentence and use probation is an important judicial tool in the administration of criminal justice. In order to preserve this power we must, therefore, impose only reasonable restrictions in its exercise. This becomes a matter of judicial necessity if we are to encourage the use of probationary authority as a matter of grace in the administration of justice.” 368 N.E.2d at 252 (original emphasis).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. State · Davis v. State“for such offense if he or she shall thereafter behave well. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schlechty
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.