Hawkins v. Mullin’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.3d 658 · 2002
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), Bland v. Sirmons (2006)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lulls the potential defendant into a false sense of security, giving him no reason even to suspect that conduct clearly outside the scope of the statute as written will be retroactively brought within it by an act of judicial construction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Ray““whether the [state court’s] construction is so unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which had been expressed prior to the conduct at issue as to prevent its application retroactively.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Ray“[A] state court's retroactive application of an unforeseeable interpretation of state law may deprive a criminal defendant of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Robb
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.