Hamilton v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Hamilton v. Texas (1990), Zink v. Lombardi (2015)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Ford v. Wainwright · Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · Demosthenes v. Baal
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed four Members of this Court have voted to grant certiorari in this case, but because a stay cannot be entered without five votes, the execution cannot be halted. For the first time in recent memory, a man will be executed after the court has decided to hear his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Herrera“an evidentiary hearing shows that the defendant has given a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of his right to proceed, and his access to court is otherwise unimpeded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. O'Rourke v. Endell“the applicant did not receive a full, fair, and adequate hearing in the State court proceeding,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. O'Rourke v. Endell
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.