State v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. Isa (1993), State v. Bradley (1991)
42 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 Sparf v. United States · Roberts v. Florida · Lewis v. Martin · United States v. Dougherty · United States v. Spock
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punishment was to be determined only if appellant were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. While it may be within reason that a jury might consider punishment concurrently with guilt, such reasoning does not compel the conclusion that a jury would decide to convict ..., not on the basis of guilt, but on the basis that it could control the assessment of punishment.... This court cannot find prejudice to this appellant on the basis of speculation.... Id. at 348 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Perhaps the jury should be informed that its role in sentencing, under some circumstances, is merely advisory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis
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.