Hemphill v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 187 · 1968
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably United States v. Sampol (1980), 2 Cal. 4th 1117 - People v. Perez (1992)
51 federal appellate · 17 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Curley v. United States · Crawford v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as consistent with an impulsive and senseless frenzy as with premeditation.”
3 later decisions 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.