State v. Hilliard’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · State v. Jacumin · State v. Overton · State of Tenn. v. Cornellison
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury that it must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant sold one-half gram or more of cocaine. The amount of cocaine sold by the defendant is an essential element of the Class B felony of selling cocaine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the type of crime committed depends on the amount possessed, making the amount an element of the offense”
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.