643 So. 2d 1071 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2013
7 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 Clemons v. Mississippi · Jones v. Howard · Bottoson v. Florida · Parker v. Dugger · Taylor v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strikes one or more aggravating circumstances relied upon by a trial judge in sentencing a defendant to death, we may conduct a harmless error analysis based on what the sentencer found in determining whether the sentence of death is still appropriate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must state that error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt and must explain in a detailed explanation based on the record why the error is harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e again hold that death is the appropriate sentence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.