Hart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1986
13 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 Garner v. State · Ruloff v. . the People · Stover v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Commonwealth v. Nichols · People v. . Tice
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the testimony of the accused alone, when sufficient -in itself for that purpose, will authorize the admission of evidence of the violent and dangerous character of the deceased, and that this results from the character of his testimony under the statute, as being that of a witness in the case, and of his status, when testifying, as that of a witness in the cause before the court and jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“nor shall any prosecuting attorney be permitted before the court or jury to comment on the failure of the accused to testify in his own behalf.”
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.