109 So. 2d 422 - Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 337 So. 2d 783 - Provence v. State (1976), Layton v. State (1976)
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 104 So. 2d 99 - Kellum v. State · 96 So. 2d 424 - Griffin 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dominant position occupied by a judge in the trial of a cause before a jury is such that his remarks or comments, especially as they relate to the proceedings before him, overshadow those of the litigants, witnesses and other court officers. Where such comment expresses or tends to express the judge's view as to the weight of the evidence, the credibility of a witness, or the guilt of an accused, it thereby destroys the impartiality of the trial to which the litigant or accused is entitled.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Gordon v. State““Do you still live where you lived at the time your husband was murdered?” “The witness testified that he did not know and he seriously doubted if anyone else knew what was in that man’s mind at the time he committed the murder * * * ."”
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.