Herrera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Herrera v. Collins (1993), Herrera v. Texas (1985)
40 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 · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dying declaration of a deceased person may be offered in evidence, either for or against a Defendant charged with the homicide of such person, under the restrictions hereafter provided. To render the declarations of the deceased competent evidence, it must be satisfactorily proved: 1. That at the time of the making such declaration he was conscious of approaching death, and believed there was no hope of recovery. 2. That such declaration was voluntarily made, and not through the persuasion of any person. 3. That such declaration was not made, in answer to interrogatories calculated to lead the deceased to make any particular statement. 4. That he was of sane mind at the time of making the declaration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez 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.