United States v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1412 · 1983
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably United States v. Simmons (1987), United States v. Redd (1985)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Burns v. United States · Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles · Flick 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Revocation of probation after unreasonable delay or under circumstances inherently misleading to the probationer is an abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““... In practice, not every violation of parole conditions automatically leads to revocation. Typically, a parolee will be counseled to abide by the conditions of parole, and the parole officer ordinarily does not take steps to have parole revoked unless he thinks that the violations are serious and continuing so as to indicate that the parolee is not adjusting properly and cannot be counted on to avoid antisocial activity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Gefroh
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.