State v. Hix’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Hill (1995), McWilliams v. Dunn (2017)
25 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ake v. Oklahoma · Ross v. Moffitt · State v. Singer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the seizure of contraband pursuant to division (A) of this section, the prosecuting attorney, * * * or similar chief legal officer who has responsibility for the prosecution of the underlying criminal case * * * shall file a petition for the forfeiture, to the seizing law enforcement agency, of the seized contraband. The petition shall be filed in the court of common pleas of the county that has jurisdiction over the underlying criminal case or administrative proceeding involved in the forfeiture. * * *” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A defendant does not have the right to an independent psychiatric examiner, pursuant to R.C. 2945.39(C), unless the trial court has ordered more than one psychiatric evaluation and the trial court has refused to appoint an examiner recommended by the defendant.” (Emphasis sic.) Hix, supra, at the syllabus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court is granted the discretion to decide if more than one psychiatric examination is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.