Hulme v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2023
14 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 Durden v. State · Chapel v. State · Ford v. State · Ward v. State · Slakman 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n Georgia, a defendant may be convicted of felony murder based on the underlying felony of distributing a controlled substance if that felony is inherently dangerous under the foregoing standards, and if the defendant directly causes the death of the victim while in the commission of the felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State“In determining whether a felony [is inherently dangerous to human life], this Court does not consider the elements of the felony in the abstract, but instead considers the circumstances under which the felony was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“The only limitation on the type of felony that may serve as an underlying felony for a felony murder conviction is that the felony must be inherently dangerous to human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.