Hamel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2005
24 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brown v. Illinois · Alderman 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, bearing in mind the foregoing instructions, if you do not believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Martindale found the Defendant, Lewis Blackmon, in suspicious places and under circumstances which reasonably show that he was guilty of some felony or breach of peace, or threatened or was about to commit some of fense against the law, you will find the Defendant not guilty. If you do so find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, then you will find the Defendant guilty as charged in the Information and you will make no finding in this verdict as to punishment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Blackmon 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.