People v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably People v. Ibarra (1993), People v. Melillo (2001)
34 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 Griffith v. Kentucky · Ungar v. Sarafite · Morris v. Slappy · Taylor v. Illinois · Williams v. Florida
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and [its] ruling will not be disturbed in the absence of an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bakari · People v. Cook“[t]here are no mechanical tests for determining whether the denial of a continuance constitutes an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bakari · People v. Brown“'particularly [at] the reasons presented to the trial judge at the time the request [was] denied.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Travis · People v. Brown
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.