State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1,015 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,019 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Hancock (2006), State v. LaMar (2002)
4 federal appellate · 1,015 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · State v. Jenks
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Dehass · State v. Jenks
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 1,019 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Isolated comments by a prosecutor are not to be taken out of context and given their most damaging meaning.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“errors cannot become prejudicial by sheer weight of numbers.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]here can be no such thing as an error-free, perfect trial, and * * * the Constitution does not guarantee such a trial.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Yeager · State v. Ecker
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.