Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Wood v. Brush · Andrews v. Swartz · Johnson v. Williams · Vernon 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reduce the trial of a defendant charged with crime to a mere game of chance, and make a mockery of the courts.”
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.