Hawk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 1996
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dorsey v. State · Hall v. State · Roland v. State · Sering v. State · Buck v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One cannot plausibly contend that a defendant may not receive an instruction on a lesser offense yet contend that the State might convict him of that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGowan v. State“[Aln act that includes any penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scrougham v. State
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.