State v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Kennedy (1987), State v. Williams (1985)
60 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 Faretta v. California · Chimel v. California · Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Watson · McCray v. State of Illinois
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the State's evidence is clear and positive with respect to each element of the offense charged and there is no evidence showing the commission of a lesser included offense, it is not error for the trial judge to refuse to instruct on the lesser offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whatever error there may have been, it was cured when the trial judge instructed the jury during his charge at the close of the final arguments that the jury was to understand and apply the law as the judge gave it to them. He then immediately, completely and accurately instructed the jury regarding the defendant’s presumption of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An officer may arrest without a warrant any person who the officer has probable cause to believe has committed a criminal offense ... in the officer's presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.