Hensley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2017
20 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 Rideout v. United States · Rummel v. Estelle · Maldonado v. State · Golden v. State · Cheney 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature’s intent is directly and clearly expressed. It is not uncertain or ambiguous as to its application. It excludes any felonies committed before the effective date of September 1, 1985. The Legislature’s intent therefore does not require any construction or interpretation. It, in fact, places us under a duty to enforce the statute according to its obvious meaning. [Citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. State · Moncrief v. State“(b) If all of the felonies that are relied upon for sentencing a person as an habitual offender under IC 35-50-2-8 are felonies that were committed before September 1, 1985, the felonies shall be prosecuted and remain punishable under IC 35-50-2-8 as if this act had not been enacted. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moncrief v. State“jury find[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Raymond Hensley is an habitual offender in that he has the following prior convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smock 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.