State v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2014
7 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 American Air Filter Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · United States v. Mancillas · Johnson v. Oklahoma · State v. Olkon · State v. Turnipseed
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven a limited elicitation, for nonhear-say purposes, of general testimony that a tip had been received that led to defendant’s prints being compared with the [burglar’s] latent print would have been unjustified ... because the potential of the evidence being used for an improper purpose outweighed its very limited probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ferguson
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.