Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 574 · 1884
Citation profile
512 federal appellate · 58 district · 882 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,838 later decisions (112 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Burks v. United States (1978)
512 federal appellate · 58 district · 882 state decisions — followed in 49 states
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 Kring v. State of Missouri · Hopt v. People · Mima Queen and Childs for Freedom v. Hepburn
Cited together with Dobbert v. Florida · Lewis v. United States · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Weaver v. Graham · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 1,838 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crime for which the present defendant was indicted, the punishment prescribed therefor, and the quantity or the degree of proof necessary to establish his guilt, all remained unaffected by the subsequent statute.”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage““That which the law makes essential in proceedings involving the deprivation of life or liberty cannot be dispensed with or affected by the consent of the accused, much less by his mere failure when on trial and in custody to object to unauthorized methods. The great end of punishment is not the expiation or atonement of the offense committed, but the prevention of future offenses of the same kind. 4 Blaekstone, Comm. 11.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“' "[W]here the indictment is for a felony, the trial commences at least from the time when the work of empanelling the jury begins.”
15 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.