People v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 275 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964), 2 Cal. 3d 362 - People v. Terry (1970)
4 federal appellate · 275 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser · 55 Cal. 2d 88 - People v. Robillard · 58 Cal. 2d 229 - People v. Perez · 58 Cal. 2d 70 - People v. Pike
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the record shows (as it does here), that, based on the evidence, that juror was inclined toward one side, the error in removing such a juror would be prejudicial to that side.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“of the circumstances surrounding the crime, of the defendant's background and history, and of any facts in aggravation or mitigation of the penalty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“disqualification could only be beneficial to the prosecution and prejudicial to the defense.”
2 later decisions 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.