Hawkins v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 849 · 1962
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably United States v. Brawner (1972), Washington v. United States (1967)
61 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Davis v. United States · Durham v. United States · Tatum v. United States · McDonald v. United States · Wright v. United States
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'jurors hold the robed trial judge in great awe and reverence' and 'his lightest word or intimation is received with deference, and may prove controlling.'”
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.