Hern v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Koza v. State (1984), Byford v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Rich v. United States · Wilkins v. State · People v. Tubby · Moser v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all three elements , willfulness, deliberation, and premeditation, must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt before an accused can be convicted of first degree murder.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. Filson · Howard v. Gittere“a first degree murder conviction would be most difficult, if not impossible, to obtain if the victim is a child who has not been killed with a gun or other dangerous weaponbut severely beaten, as in the instant case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright“it was permissible for the jury to find that Hern formed an intent to kill through extreme physical abuse, and that appellant caused the death with premeditation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright
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.