State v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2019
13 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 Ohio v. Roberts · State v. Golding · United States v. Inadi · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · State v. Derrico
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A ballistics expert testified that the bullet obtained from Torres' body matched the .45 caliber shell casing found on the floor of the Buick. The other casings found on the roof of the Buick and on Button Street came from a nine millimeter gun. A fingerprint expert identified fingerprints found on the interior of the driver's door as those of the [petitioner]. Experts from the state forensic laboratory testified that the blood on the sheet covering the backseat was consistent with the [petitioner's] blood type.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n March, 1993, the [petitioner], accompanied by four masked men, approached Alex Santana and asked him where to find his cousin, George Flores. When Santana replied that he had not seen Flores, the [petitioner] punched Santana in the face, causing him to be thrown against a store window. The owner of the store came outside and the [petitioner] and his companions departed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) except for the larceny charges, there was insufficient evidence to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt with respect to the other crimes, (2) he was denied his right to confront his accusers and (3) the trial court gave incorrect jury instructions concerning proof beyond a reasonable doubt and consciousness of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.