Hamner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably State v. Smith (1978), Morgan v. State (1972)
25 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Bennett v. State · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fox v. Swing · Smith 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.
““It [the legislature] proceeded from the theory that all should yield obedience to lawful authority.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whoever, being lawfully detained in any jail or other place of confinement, except the State Prison, breaks or escapes therefrom, or attempts to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 7 years. The sentence to such imprisonment shall not be concurrent with any other sentence then being served or thereafter to be imposed upon such escapee. Whoever resists apprehension or breaks arrest shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 11 months.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heald““The lawfulness of the detention is the very gist of the crime of criminal escape, and the commitment by lawful authority is the very essence of the lawfulness of the detention.” Smith, Ptr. v. State, 145 Me. 313, 322 , 75 A.2d 538, 543 (1950).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyce 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.