State v. Huggins’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Hamilton (2001), State v. Colf (2000)
53 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 Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Alford v. United States · Williams v. United States · Hill v. Lockhart · State v. Sims
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A new trial will not be granted unless the prosecutor's comments so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“Closing arguments must be confined to evidence in the record and reasonable inferences therefrom.”
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.