Hampton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hopkinson v. State (1981), Dysthe v. State (2003)
65 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Thomas v. United States · United States v. Amaral · People v. Barker · Sykes v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously inflict upon another person, any grievous bodily harm the person so offending shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or be confined in the county jail not more than one (1) years,'or both.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Snyder v. State · Sanville v. State
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.