Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Johnson v. State (1983), Poindexter v. State (2005)
31 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 · Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Finch v. Connor · United States v. Romano
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the theory of prosecution is sole or joint possession, the evidence must affirmatively link the accused to the contraband in such a manner and to such an extent that a reasonable infers ence may arise that the accused knew of the contraband’s existence and that he exercised control over it. (citations omitted) This affirmative link is established by showing additional facts and circumstances which indicate the accused’s knowledge and control of the contraband, (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Watson 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.