Hampton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1,308 federal appellate · 64 district · 506 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,306 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Hasting (1983), United States v. Scott (1978)
1,308 federal appellate · 64 district · 506 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Hampton (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Rochin v. People of California · O'Shea v. Littleton · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · United States v. Twigg
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 2,306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that fundamental fairness, shocking to the universal sense of justice,' mandated by the due process clause of the fifth amendment.”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage“so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial processes to obtain a conviction”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“Police overinvolvement in crime would have to reach a demonstrable level of outrageousness before it could bar conviction.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.