State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Gold (1979), State v. McGill (1976)
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 Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. Walker · Coblentz v. State · State v. Chambers · 316 F. Supp. 1148 - United States v. Sweig · United States v. Edgerton
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.
“[T]he prosecutor is a public officer with duties quasi-judicial in nature. His obligation is to protect not only the public interest but also the rights of the accused. In the performance of his duties he must not only be disinterested and impartial but must also appear to be so. * * * * * * He must observe limits of essential fairness in his work * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“persons required or entitled to assist the grand jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carr
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.