Hagans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Ford v. State (1993), State v. Lancaster (1993)
4 federal appellate · 113 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 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Green v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · Schmuck v. United States · Keeble v. United States
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court ordinarily should not give a jury an instruction on an uncharged lesser included offense where neither side requests or affirmatively agrees to such instruction ... [as these are matters of] strategy which are best left to the parties.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant may only be convicted of an uncharged lesser included offense if it meets the elements [i.e., required evidence] test,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Although the lesser included offense doctrine developed at common law largely for the benefit of the prosecution, it may now also be invoked by the defendant. In Keeble v. United States, 412 U.S. 205 , 93 S.Ct. 1993 , 36 L.Ed.2d 844 (1973), the Supreme Court indicated that not allowing the defendant the right to request an instruction on a lesser included offense might violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. And in Beck v. Alabama, supra, 447 U.S. 625 , 100 S.Ct. 2382 , 654 L.Ed.2d 392 , the Court held that before the imposition of the death sentence, the jury must be allowed to consider a lesser included offense if the evidence warrants it.” (Citations omitted.)”
3 later decisions 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.