Hawks v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), Wright v. Angelone (1998)
32 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Pauling v. McElroy · Salinger v. Loisel · Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · Chandler v. Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Absent a change of circumstances, previous determination of the issues by either state or federal courts will be conclusive. Here, Hawks alleges no new ground for relief. Unlike Stonebreaker [v. Smyth], supra, 187 Va. 250 , 46 S.E.2d 406 , he relies on no new constitutional mandate or change in the law. All allegations now made by Hawks having been resolved against him, the previous adjudications are conclusive under § 8-605 and he is entitled to no further relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Murray“[a]bsent a change in circumstances, previous determinations of the issues by either state or federal courts will be conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.