Hills v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 397 · 1976
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Skillern v. Estelle (1983)
58 federal appellate · 6 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Milton v. Wainwright · Dann v. Johnston
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material in the sense of a crucial, critical, highly significant factor.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'as to deny fundamental fairness to the criminal trial, thus violating the due process clause.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the admissibility... of the evidence under state law is not determinative of a federally protected right' cognizable on habeas corpus”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.