Human v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Sodipo v. State (1991), Rojas v. State (1998)
37 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Berger v. United States · Carlsen v. State · Chambers v. State · Denby 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]rdinarily the proof that is adduced to establish that the defendant on trial is one and the same person that is named in an alleged prior criminal conviction or convictions closely resembles a jigsaw • puzzle. The pieces stahding alone usually have little meaning. However, when the pieces are fitted together, they usually form the picture of the person who committed that alleged prior conviction or convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. ORSAG v. State · Haas v. State“Where the State’s case is based upon circumstantial evidence, the “exclusion of an outstanding reasonable hypothesis” test may be used as one means of making the determination whether the evidence is sufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before a variance between the pleading and the proof might be fatal, and thus cause the conviction or punishment to be reversed, such variance has to be both material and prejudicial to the defendant. Id. at 837 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greeno 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.