Hamilton v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
863 federal appellate · 80 district · 1,046 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,582 later decisions (107 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), Boykin v. Alabama (1969)
863 federal appellate · 80 district · 1,046 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Williams v. Kaiser · Crain v. United States · House v. Mayo
Cited together with White v. State of Maryland · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Wade · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 2,582 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the degree of prejudice can never be known”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schmidt v. Foster · Ray v. Bauman“(a)rraignment has differing consequences in the various jurisdictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“denied relief because there was no showing or effort to show that petitioner was `disadvantaged in any way by the absence of counsel.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.