Ex Parte Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Moore v. State of Michigan · Reece v. State of Georgia · Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. Etten · Tomkins v. State of Missouri
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Hamilton was not represented by counsel at the time he was arraigned on the indictment on which he was subsequently tried and convicted. We are not here controlled by the minute and judgment entries, as was the situation on appeal from the judgment of conviction. * * *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.