Hawkins v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1934
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mock v. Pleasants · Trimble v. James · Smith v. Stephens
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * subject to the payment of his debts and the widow’s dower””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Beall
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.