Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2021
24 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 · Wheat v. United States · Edge v. State · Jones v. State · Head 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“((1)) concern that the lawyer's pecuniary interest in possible future business may cause him (or her) to avoid vigorous cross-examination which might be embarrassing or offensive to the witness; (and (2)) . . . the possibility that privileged information obtained from the witness (in the earlier representation) might be relevant to cross-examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n cases where an alleged conflict of interest is based upon defense counsel's prior representation of a prosecution witness, we must examine the particular circumstances of the representations to determine whether counsel's undivided loyalties remain with his or her current client, as they must. In this regard, we believe that the factors that arguably may interfere with effective cross-examination . . . include: "((1)) concern that the lawyer's pecuniary interest in possible future business may cause him (or her) to avoid vigorous cross-examination which might be embarrassing or offensive to the witness; (and (2)) . . . the possibility that privileged information obtained from the witness (in the earlier representation) might be relevant to cross-examination." [Cit.] Another factor that should be considered in determining whether an actual or potential conflict of interest rendered trial counsel ineffective, is whether "the subject matter of the first representation is substantially related to that of the second." [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moon v. State“Analyzing the trial court’s charge in this case as a whole, as we must, we find that the charge was not impermissibly sequential. The charge regarding voluntary manslaughter was complete, and makes no indication that it could be considered only after malice and felony murder had been eliminated as possible verdicts. Similarly, nothing about the portion of the charge regarding the verdict form . . . precluded the jury’s consideration of provocation or passion unless and until it found Hall not guilty of felony and malice murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. State
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