Hampton v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably People v. MacKey (1974), People v. Madson (1981)
97 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · In re Oliver · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecuting attorney is not obliged to call any particular witness, but may try his case in his own way and at his discretion call those witnesses he chooses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Crespin
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.