Hobson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
20 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 Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · Spencer v. Brown · Rogers v. First National Bank of Peoria · Schiro v. Indiana · Smith 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state and discuss the evidence and reasonable inferences derivable therefrom so long as there is no implication of personal knowledge that is independent of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he prosecutor gave personal opinions as to the truthfulness of witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin · Cooper v. State“Instruction No. 3.01-Murder I.C. 35-42-1-1. The crime of murder is defined by statute as follows: A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being while committing or attempting to commit arson, burglary, child molesting, criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping, rape, or robbery commits murder, a felony. To convict a defendant, the State must prove each of the following elements: The defendant (1) knowingly or intentionally (2) killed (8) Melissa Draus{[;] or The defendant (1) killed (2) Melissa Draus (8) while committing or attempt ing to commit criminal deviate conduct or rape. -”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathews 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.