Hamilton v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Rothweiler v. Superior Court of Pima County (1966), Peyton v. Nord (1968)
28 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 District of Columbia v. Clawans · District of Columbia v. Colts · State v. Rodgers · Guiterrez v. Gober · City of Albuquerque v. Arias
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right [to jury trial] should be jealously guarded and preserved where the legislature sees fit to grant it in other and different cases [beyond the traditional, constitutionally-guaranteed cases].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vallejos v. Barnhart
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.