State v. Hinson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2018
12 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · State v. Mathis
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When the reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of guilt or innocence,' nondisclosure of a promise of immunity made to that witness * is a violation of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smalls 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.