Hamm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Drummond (2006), Echols v. State (1996)
43 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 Foster v. State · United States v. Crawford · Harvey v. State · Kiefer v. State · Oliver 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“11fiwould imply to the jury that the witness had in fact sold drugs to Pace. The trial judge ruled that he would not allow [Hamm] to flagrantly build his defense out of the use of the testimonial privilege .... [N]either the prosecution nor the defense is permitted to call a witness knowing that the witness will claim his testimonial privilege.”
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.