State v. Hornsby’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2009
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In capital cases, upon a separation (of the jury), misconduct and abuse will always be presumed.”'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Populus · State v. Spears““This ground, not being apparent upon the record when the motion was made, offered no cause to arrest the judgment, but the fact that the jury did separate being shown to this court, now, by the transcript filed and proceedings had in the lower court, will be examined as if offered on the motion for new trial, which was the proper course.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Craighead
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.