Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2013
18 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 George v. State · Parrish v. State · Thornton v. State · Gardner 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Witnesses may always be allowed to testify as to the appearance and emotions of other persons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The objections to the statements of the witness that the defendant `seemed all right,' that `he talked rational,' etc., were properly overruled. Such expressions were admissible under the rules [the Supreme Court] . . . [has] announced, and for the further reason that they were admissible to show the appearance, emotions and condition of the mind of the defendant." [Bracketed material added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Witnesses, whether expert or non-expert, may express their opinion as to the sanity or insanity of defendant on trial for crime. Parrish v. State, 139 Ala. 16, 42 , 36 So. 1012 ; George v. State, 240 Ala. 632, 636 , 200 So. 602 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hogan 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.