State v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Hunt (2003)
49 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 Bruton v. United States · Enmund v. Florida · Mills v. Maryland · State v. Odom · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant says [Issue Three] is deficient because if the jury is in equipóse it must answer the issue ‘yes’ and impose the death penalty. We do not believe that the defendant's] . . . analysis of the issue is correct. If the jury must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt before finding the mitigating circumstances are insufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstances and the jury is in a state of equipóse as to the issue it would answer the issue ‘no.’ We hold [that Issue Three] was properly submitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keel · State v. King“If, upon motion of the defendant, the court determines that there exists in the county in which the prosecution is pending so great a prejudice against the defendant that he cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial, the court must either: (1) Transfer the proceeding to another county in the prosecutorial district as defined in G.S. 7A-60 or to another county in an adjoining prosecutorial district as defined in G.S. 7A-60, or (2) Order a special venire under the terms of G.S. 15A-958.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeb“suggest the possibility of parole in so direct a manner as to amount to a gross impropriety requiring ex mero motu intervention by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Quesinberry
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.