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← 89 N.M. 746 - State v. Hamilton

State v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
4
states following
August 2023
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Sowell (1988), State v. Salazar (1997)

45 state decisions

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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 Gladden v. State · State v. Vigil · State v. Rondeau · State v. Rodriguez · State v. Lara

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * manifested by external circumstances capable of proof”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “* * * all of the facts and circumstances of the killing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “malice aforethought, either express or implied,”
    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.