Hammers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1993
11 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 Goldman v. United States · Attorney General v. Pelletier · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Fikes v. State · State v. Wroth
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.
““There must not only be no improper influence or suggestion in the grand jury room, but, as suggested in Lewis v. Commissioners, 74 N.C. 194 , there must be no opportunity therefor. If the presence of an unauthorized person in the grand jury room may be excused, who will set bounds to the abuse to follow such a breach of the safeguards which surround the grand jury?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ringgold“The proper procedure would have been to have the recording played in Green's presence... . Green would then have been in a position to identify the recording of the voices as taken from his wire recording.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. State““. . . or if, for any cause, the court, in its discretion, shall deem other jurors necessary.””
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.