Ughbanks v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 481 · 1908
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Morrissey v. Brewer (1972), Avery v. State of Alabama (1940)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Kemmler · Kring v. State of Missouri · Maxwell v. Dow · Edward Dreyer v. People of the State of Illinois · James Brown v. State of New Jersey
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * it is a question of state policy exclusively for the state to decide, as is also the procedure to ascertain the fact, as well as the kind or amount of evidence upon which to base its determination. It is not bound to give the convict a hearing upon the question of prior conviction, and a failure to give it violates no provision of the Federal Constitution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.