Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Williams v. State (2000), Jones v. Hanks (1997)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Spradlin v. State · Jackson v. State · Lynch v. State · Santana v. State · Woodcox v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who knowingly confines another person without the other person’s consent commits criminal confinement, a Class D felony. However the offense is a Class B felony if it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon. To convict the Defendant, the State must have proved each of the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt: The Defendant, Michael Stafford (1) knowingly (2) confined Joanne Batdorf (3) and while committing it the Defendant was armed with a deadly weapon.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Wilson v. State“[An instruction which purports to set forth the elements which must be proven in order to conviet of the crime of attempted murder must inform the jury that the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, with the intent to kill the victim, engaged in conduct which was a substantial step toward such killing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Wilson v. State“Although a person may be convicted of murder upon proof that he acted 'knowingly,' he may not be convicted of attempted murder without proof that he acted with the intent to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Hanks
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.