Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2016
2 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 Boykin v. State · Hernandez 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) intentionally or knowingly: (A) causes the penetration of the ... female sexual organ of another person who is not the spouse of the actor by any means, without that person’s consent; ⅝ * ⅜ * ⅜ * (2) intentionally or knowingly: (A) cause the penetration of the ... female sexual organ of a child by any means; [[Image here]] (c) In this section: (1) “Child” means a person younger than 17 years of age who is not the spouse of the actor. (d) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(2) of this section that: (1) the child was at the time of the offense 14 years of age or older and had prior to the time of the offense engaged promiscuously in conduct described in that subseetion[.]” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pawson v. State
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.