Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Burch v. State (1997), Oken v. State (1996)
55 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Ham v. South Carolina · Ristaino v. Ross · Aldridge 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undergirding the voir dire procedure and, hence, informing the trial court’s exercise of discretion regarding the conduct of the voir dire, is a single, primary, and overriding principle or purpose: “to ascertain ‘the existence of cause for disqualification.’ ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[T]he purpose of voir dire examination is to exclude from the venire those potential jurors for whom there exists cause for disqualification, so that the jury that remains is “capable of deciding the matter before [it] based solely upon the facts presented, ‘uninfluenced by any extraneous considerations.’ ” ’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. State · Perry v. State“`an examination of a juror ... conducted strictly within the right to discover the state of mind of the juror in respect to the matter in hand or any collateral matter reasonably liable to unduly influence him.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. State · Dingle v. State
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.