Hamm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Maxwell v. Stephens (1965), Tarkington v. State (1971)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Palmer v. State · Threet 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.
““Appellant was questioned by tbe Prosecuting Attorney after his arrest, and bis answers were taken down by tbe Prosecuting Attorney’s stenographer. These statements were not in tbe nature of a confession. On tbe contrary, they were a denial of guilt. But appellant as a witness undertook to account for bis whereabouts on tbe night of tbe crime, and particularly as to tbe time when be returned home that night. Tbe stenographer was called to read her notes in contradiction of tbe testimony given by appellant at tbe trial. It is permissible always to impeach tbe testimony of a witness by showing that be bad previously made statements in conflict with bis testimony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. State · Brown 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.