People v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018
16 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 Sullivan v. Louisiana · Patterson v. New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Gaudin · Speiser v. Randall
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[elvery person is presumed to be sane; but, onee any evidence of insanity is introduced, the people have the burden of proving sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Grant · People v. Grenier“so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong with respect to that act”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Laeke · People v. Grant“The law presumes everyone to be sane. However, after some evidence of insanity is introduced, the burden of proof is upon the People to prove to the satisfaction of the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the crimes charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Bielecki
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.