Hawk v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1977
19 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 Wendling v. Commonwealth · Ratliff v. Commonwealth · Tarkaney v. Commonwealth · Higgins v. Commonwealth · Denham v. Commonwealth
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession is a voluntary statement made by a person in which he acknowledges himself to be guilty of an offense or discloses the existence of the act and the share or participation which he had in it. The distinction between a confession and an admission is that the latter is only a self-incriminating statement short of an acknowledgment of guilt, or a statement of an isolated or independent act tending only to show guilt or criminal intent.””
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.