Hale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Alvie James Hale v. Gary Gibson (2000)
16 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Maynard v. Cartwright · Mills v. Maryland · Spuehler v. State · Stouffer 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“barred from asserting any claims which have been, or which could have been, raised previously in his direct appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“which could have been raised on direct appeal, but were not”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“those situations ... in which a 'sufficient reason' prevented the assertion of the error at trial or on direct appeal, such as a subsequent change in the law affecting the petitioner's case.... [or] when the bypass is occasioned solely by a procedural error of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.