Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (1992), Edwards v. State (1989)
30 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 Wicks v. State · Singleton v. State · Ply v. State · Eskew v. State · Janes 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where error is made by the trial judge without knowledge of the defense counsel, (2) where the trial court should intervene on its own motion to correct a serious error, and (3) where evidential errors affect a defendant’s substantial rights although they were not brought to the court’s attention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aaron 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.