Hinkle v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 141 · 1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1997
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Skibs v. Otis McAlLister & Co. · Kiernan v. Van Schaik · Sellers v. United States · Goosman v. A. Duie Pyle, Inc. · Chavez v. United States
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.
“[h]ad the question been whether the jurors would have credited a medical doctor over an osteopath simply because he was a medical doctor, or if it had been an inquiry whether the jurors would discount the testimony of an osteopath simply because he was an osteopath, the Sellers principle [holding that a question directed to the credibility of two classes of witnesses was proper] would be pertinent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]laintiff's question, if followed out, could have restricted the jury's deliberations,”
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.