Huffman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably State v. Webb (1994), Cain v. South Carolina (1990)
39 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Zant v. Stephens
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to present a defense collides with the State’s interest in promulgating rules of evidence to govern the conduct of its trials, the merits of the respective positions must be weighed, [and] the State’s interest must give way to the defendant’s rights if its rules are “mechanistically” applied to deprive the defendant of a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Hubbard v. State“In order to convict the Defendants of a crime, it is necessary to satisfy the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendants entertained the specific intent to commit the crime alleged. The law is well settled that voluntary intoxication is no defense in criminal proceedings unless it can be shown that the accused were so intoxicated as to be incapable of forming the specific intent necessary to commit the crime. The burden of proving this defense is on the Defendants. The intoxication must be of such a degree as to deprive them of the power to deliberate or form the necessary design or guilty intent. Mere intoxication, in the absence of some mental incapacity resulting therefrom as will render a person incapable of thinking deliberately and mediating [sic] rationally cannot be regarded as sufficient ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Street 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.