Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Williams v. State (1981), Lelis v. State (1966)
23 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 Simmons v. State · Febre v. State · 87 So. 2d 584 - Hunt v. State · 74 So. 2d 74 - McCollum v. State · 114 So. 2d 381 - Penton 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to consider, along with the other evidence, that defendant prior to the accident had partaken of alcoholic beverages, despite the fact that he was acquitted [of]... manslaughter while intoxicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not bespeak a basic necessity requiring ... instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.