State v. Hough’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Fleck (2012), State v. Pontbriand (2005)
33 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 State v. Moore · State v. Back · State v. Schantzen · State v. Ford · State v. Soto
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(the assailant's knowledge of the presence of a particular victim is not essential to sustain a conviction under the statute. . . . When an assailant fires numerous shots from a semiautomatic weapon into a home, it may be inferred that the assailant intends to cause fear of immediate bodily harm or death to those within the home. As the trial court noted, it was a natural and probable consequence that Hough's actions would endanger people other than Mr. Staska. Such intentional behavior is not excused simply because Hough claims he did not know others were present in the home or because others within the home were not immediately aware of the dangerous act.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · State v. Townsend“[T]he actor either has a purpose to do the thing or cause the result specified or believes that the act, if successful, will cause that result.”
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.