State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 545 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 548 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Barnes (2002), State v. Rogers (2015)
3 federal appellate · 545 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Gideon v. Wainwright · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 548 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with the utmost caution, under exceptional circumstances and only to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“As part of the inquiry into whether plain error occurred, a reviewing court 'must examine the error asserted by the [defendant] in light of all of the evidence properly admitted at trial and determine whether the jury would have convicted the defendant even if the error had not occurred.' State v. Slagle (1992), 65 Ohio St.3d 597 , 605, 605 N.E.2d 916 , 925. Reversal is warranted only if the outcome of the trial clearly would have been different absent the error.”
9 later decisions 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.