Hill v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.3d 679 · 2002
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 49 Cal. 4th 405 - People v. Williams (2010), Ex Parte Briseno (2004)
19 federal appellate · 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Colorado v. Connelly · Atkins v. Virginia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Ford v. Wainwright
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Atkins , the Supreme Court held at the end of its term that executing a mentally retarded individual violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. This holding applies retroactively....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a suspect suffers from some mental incapacity, such as intoxication or retardation, and the incapacity is known to interrogating officers, a `lesser quantum of coercion' is necessary to call a confession into question.”
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.