Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2011
6 federal appellate · 17 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 Chapman v. State of California · Furman v. Georgia · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Hamilton knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person, and (4) that he committed the murders for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest or prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Mullin“When we started with this case, the defendant was presumed to be not guilty. You said you could do that. This evidence now strips the cloak of innocence from him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Mullin“Have we proved what we said we could prove? Yes. I submit to you, as I said a few minutes ago, the cloak of innocence is stripped away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Mullin
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.