State v. Hipplewith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), State v. Marshall (1991)
96 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 Berger v. United States · James Brown v. State of New Jersey · State v. Butler · State v. Johnson · State v. Bucanis
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In passing upon the propriety of a trial court’s instruction, this court will examine the entire charge to see whether the jury was misinformed as to the controlling law. It is ordinarily impossible for the trial court to state all of the applicable law in one sentence. The test, therefore, is whether the charge in its entirety was ambiguous or misleading.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. R.B. · State v. RB“[t]wo vices can be discerned in this sort of expression of personal opinion first, the prosecutor's invitation to the jury to rely on him as a crime expert, and second, the implication that the prosecutor's judgment may be based on evidence not presented at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so grievously affect the substantial rights of the defendant as to convince [the court] that they possessed a clear capacity to bring about an unjust result.”
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.