State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2014
18 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Murphy v. Carron · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Clozza v. Bair · State v. Mallett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a witness has personally observed events he is permitted to testify as to his matter of fact comprehension of what he has seen in a descriptive manner which is actually a conclusion, opinion or inference, if the inference is common and accords with the ordinary experiences of everyday life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wald
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.