Hendricks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2025
8 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 · McIntyre v. State · Dodd v. State · Smith v. State · 270 Ga. App. 250 - Brock 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, the jury’s knowledge that he had been held in contempt for failing to testify was unlikely to give rise to any prejudicial inferences against [the defendant]. To the contrary, the fact that [the co-indictee], having already acknowledged his own guilt for the crimes, nevertheless refused to testify for the prosecution despite the grant of immunity was more nearly subject to being interpreted favorably for the defense. His refusal to testify for the State, even though he had nothing to lose by doing so, would seem to indicate that he did not have any testimony to give which was inculpatory of [the defendant].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“witness'[s] in-court invocation of his Fifth Amendment rights is not necessarily harmful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace 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.