7 Haw. App. 89 - State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Dan v. State (1994), Stanley v. State (1994)
47 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 State v. Schrock · State v. Kahalewai · 23 Ariz. App. 169 - State v. Bell · 5 Haw. App. 210 - State v. Casipe · Phillips 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a hearing should be held on a Rule 40 petition for post-conviction relief where the petition states a colorable claim. To establish a colorable claim, the allegations of the petition must show that if taken as true the facts alleged would change the verdict [;] however, a petitioner's conclusions need not be regarded as true. Where examination of the record of the trial court proceedings indicates that the petitioner's allegations show no colorable claim, it is not error to deny the petition without a hearing.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(f) Hearings. If a petition alleges facts that if proven would entitle the petitioner to relief, the court shall grant a hearing which may extend only to the issues raised in the petition or answer. However, the court may deny a hearing if the petitioner's claim is patently frivolous and is without trace of support either in the record or from other evidence submitted by the petitioner....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fukusaku v. State · Najera v. State“whether the trial record indicates that Petitioner's application for relief made such a showing of a colorable claim as to require a hearing before the lower court”
5 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.