Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1218 - White v. State (1990), 409 So. 2d 996 - Hardy v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Hamilton v. Alabama · Michigan National Bank v. Michigan · Leon v. Klinger · McCall 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]urglary, like trespass, is an offense against the possession, and hence the test for the purpose of determining in whom the ownership of the premises should be laid in an indictment is not the title, but the occupancy or possession at the time the offense was committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ppellant's unexplained presence in the boudoir of a married woman, without pants and shoes, and with his privates exposed, after 2:00 a.m. in the morning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a jury question to be decided from all the surrounding circumstances and evidence presented.”
1 later decision 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.