State v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2022
13 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 State v. Copas · Goldhirsh Group, Inc. v. Lew Alpert and Alpert Productions, Inc. · 59 Cal. 2d 468 - People v. Jackson · State v. Anderson · State v. Gray
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Aln inference is a deduction as to the existence of a fact which human experience teaches us can reasonably and logically be drawn from proof of other facts'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the magistrate's role in this process, while limited, is not that of a rubber stamp for the prosecution. ... Even with this limited role, the magistrate must attempt to ensure that all 'groundless and improvident prosecutions' are ferreted out no later than the preliminary hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the correlation between the predicate facts and conclusion is slight, then the inference is less reasonable, and at some point, the link between the facts and the conclusion becomes so tenuous that we call it speculation.”
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.