People v. Hambleton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1983
18 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 The People v. Rongetti · People v. Ellsworth · The People v. Barnard · The People v. Owens · The People v. Johnson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant in every criminal case is entitled, under the law, to a reasonable time and full opportunity to prepare for his trial, and that right is one guaranteed to him by the constitution. Innocent or guilty, or whatever his position might be, he is entitled to sufficient time to prepare his defense 9 9 9 There is not one law for an innocent man and another for a guilty man.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant was not given sufficient time in order that it could be said he had a fair trial contemplated by law.”
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.