Hobbs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Adams v. Texas · Lockhart v. McCree · Baskett v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any case in which a person is convicted of first degree murder the court shall impose a sentence of death. If the penalty of death is determined to be unconstitutional the penalty for first degree murder shall be life imprisonment without benefit of parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fatir v. Thomas
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.