State v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1957
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless it should be shown to the Supreme Court prima facie that the defendant is entitled to relief, that Court will take no steps in the matter. If prima facie it is shown to the Supreme Court that the defendant is entitled to relief, then the opportunity to get that relief should be and will be afforded him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kennedy
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.