State v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 750 So. 2d 832 - State v. Snyder (1999), State v. Howard (1999)
48 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 Sullivan v. Louisiana · Lockhart v. Fretwell · 416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff · 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss · Lowenschuss v. Resorts International, Inc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable investigation [which] would have uncovered mitigating evidence,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reeves · State v. Ford“Ineffective assistance of counsel in the penalty phase of capital cases is a recurring problem. In many cases ... defense counsel, after vigorously contesting the guilt phase, has turned the case over to the jury for penalty determination with little additional evidence or argument, perhaps because the emotional and physical strain on the sole defense counsel in the losing effort in the guilt phase lessens his ability to maintain the same performance level in the immediately following penalty phase.”
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.