Heffernan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Guinan (1984), Rector v. State (1983)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Hobbs v. State · Williamson v. State · Kelley v. State · Williams 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant in a criminal case cannot rely upon discovery as a total substitute for his own investigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n looking through the files sometime back”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.