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Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

70
cited by 70 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2014
most recently cited

58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Wright v. Illinois (1987), Williams v. State (2007)

58 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockhart v. McCree · Penn v. State · Collins v. State · Giles 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Any hard and fast rule as to age would tend to defeat the ends of justice, so the term youth must be considered as relative and this factor weighed in the light of varying conditions and circumstances.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Nooner v. State · 719 F. Supp. 1469 - Hill v. Lockhart
  2. “(a) The jury shall impose a sentence of death if it unanimously returns written findings that: (1) Aggravating circumstances exist beyond a reasonable doubt; and (2) Aggravating circumstances outweigh beyond a reasonable doubt all mitigating circumstances found to exist; and (3)Aggravating circumstances justify a sentence of death beyond a reasonable doubt. (b) The jury shall impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole if it finds that: (1) Aggravating circumstances do not exist beyond a reasonable doubt; or (2) Aggravating circumstances do not outweigh beyond a reasonable doubt all mitigating circumstances found to exist; or (3) Aggravating circumstances do not justify a sentence of death beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cox v. State · Echols v. State
  3. “Since there are other avenues by which the state can prove crimes immediately connected with the principal crime, the only logical conclusion is that section (3) applies to crimes not connected in time or place to the killing for which the defendant has just been convicted. In this case the crimes used to prove an aggravated circumstance involved other victims, in another place and previously in time. Therefore, they were properly used as an aggravating circumstance. (Emphasis added.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. State · 719 F. Supp. 1469 - Hill v. Lockhart

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.