Huckaby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Blockburger v. United States · Spuehler v. State · VanWoundenberg v. State · Vanwoudenberg v. Oklahoma · United States v. Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A design to effect death sufficient to constitute murder may be formed instantly before committing the act by which it is carried into execution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Champion · Black v. State“that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a human being, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Champion“[M]alice aforethought requires nothing more than a deliberate intention to take the life of another without justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Champion
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.