Hickson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably McFee v. State (1987), 557 So. 2d 542 - Griffin v. State (1990)
37 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Drope v. Missouri · Estelle v. Williams · Taylor v. Kentucky · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[permitting the jury to see the defendant bound and shackled improperly encroaches on the defendant’s presumption of innocence. If this right of the accused is violated, it may be ground for the reversal of [the] conviction. However, the failure, through an oversight, to remove handcuffs from a prisoner for a short time or any technical violation of the rule prohibiting shackling, not prejudicial to him, is not ground for reversal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]onduct by the prosecuting attorneys that ... interjects appeals to bias, passion or prejudice . .. . [w]here such conduct is so substantial that the accused's right to a fair trial is substantially impaired, ... . [w]here trial judge has abused his discretion in such matters, we unhesitatingly reverse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused in a criminal prosecution is `fundamental.' Its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal justice system. Though not expressly written into the Bill of Rights, the presumption of innocence has long been recognized as the logical corollary of the principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, a proposition which has been accorded federal constitutional status. This Court has been sensitive to subtle erosions of the presumption of innocence.”
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.