Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Davis v. Alaska · Finch v. Connor · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ;n certain factual situations it is permissible to inquire into the juvenile record of a witness in face of the statute making these records confidential. However, the scope of this inquiry must be limited to facts tending to disclose interest, bias or prejudice and not impeachment by contradictory testimony, Salaz v. State, [Wyo., 561 P.2d 238 (1977) ] at 241.” Hernandez v. State, Wyo., 587 P.2d 1094, 1097 (1978). See also, Con-nor v. State, Wyo., 537 P.2d 715 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Amin 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.