Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), Mitchell v. State (2002)
1 federal appellate · 58 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 Chapman v. State of California · Brinegar v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Wainwright v. Witt
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, the State not only admitted the judgment [of conviction for aggravated assault], but they also called [Heggar] to the stand. She testified that one afternoon in the summer between her eighth and ninth grade school years [Hughes] came over to her mother’s apartment. She answered the door, and spoke to [Hughes], whom she knew through his cousin. As she was preparing to go to the beach that afternoon and had to change clothes, she said goodbye and began [to] shut the door. [Hughes] put his foot in the door and barged inside. [Heggar] then recounted the details of how [Hughes] raped her. [Hughes] was subsequently arrested for aggravated sexual assault. Between the time of his release on the sexual assault charge and his trial, [Hughes] allegedly approached [Heggar], threatened her if she testified, and when she turned to run, fired a gun at her. [Hughes] took the stand in this cause and testified that neither the rape nor the assault ever took place. Most of the testimony concerning this issue involved not the assault charge but rather the question of whether [Hughes] raped [Heggar], as well as another rape charge in the State of New York. The admission of the two convictions tend[s] to corroborate [Heggar’s] version of the story. However, the incremental harm of the admission of [Hughes’s] deferred adjudication for the aggravated assault is negligible when compared to the admission of [Hughes’s] deferred adjudication for aggravated sexual assault [of] a child. If t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hughes v. Quarterman“Probable cause exists `when the facts and circumstances within an officer's personal knowledge and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in the belief that, more likely than not,' a particular suspect has committed an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. State“An objection to photographic evidence is waived if the same information contained in the photograph is conveyed to the jury in some other form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ford 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.