Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2007
10 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 Manson v. Brathwaite · Brown v. Illinois · Gilbert v. California · Dunaway v. New York · Davis v. Mississippi
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.
“We cannot aigree with the Court of Appeals that the admission of the [out-of-court] identification was harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt_ We cannot say that the admission of the [out-of-court] identification added nothing that was calculated to cause the jury to return a different verdict than they would have returned if it had not been admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooke v. State“wore sloppy clothes and his shirt was unbuttoned to the waist just as [the witness] had described.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“couldn't rule [the photograph of the defendant] out, but she made no positive identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.