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← 331 N.C. 387 - State v. Hill

State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

120
cited by 120 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited

115 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Green (1994)

115 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · California v. Brown · Bowsher v. Merck & Co.

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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"When challenges for cause are supported by prospective juror's answers to questions propounded by the prosecutor and by the court, the court does not abuse its discretion, at least in the absence of a showing that further questioning by defendant would likely have produced different answers, by refusing to allow the defendant to question the juror challenged [about the same matter]."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The nature and extent of the inquiry made of prospective jurors on voir dire ordinarily rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “circumstance or circumstances arising from the evidence which you, the jury, deem to have mitigating value,”
    2 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.