Hudgins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Smith v. State (1986), Patuxent Institution Board of Review v. Hancock (1993)
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 Scott v. State · Coles v. State · Wiener v. State · Swan v. State · Humphrey 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] general condition of probation is permissible only `so long as it is contemplated that the court or its designee (usually the probation authority) will provide the probationer with reasonable, specific direction within the ambit of the initially expressed general condition, and such guidance is in fact given.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““the judge assumes the role of factfinder to determine: in the first instance, whether the State has met its obligation of showing that there has been a failure of compliance with a condition of probation, and if so, secondly, whether the probationer has carried out his burden of establishing that the violation ‘resulted from factors beyond his control and through no fault of his own.’ ” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. State“cooperate with the Maryland State police in tracking down criminals”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.