Bates v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2013
17 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 State v. Menillo · Williamson v. United States · State v. Obstein · State v. Konigsberg
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.
“[T]he bail hearing is not a determination of guilt or innocence but rather a determination of the preliminary issue of the right to a reasonable bail. Unless the accused insists otherwise, it may well be conducted somewhat informally, as upon affidavits.”). . We therefore also decline the dissent's invitation to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reis““§709-3 Bailable offenses. All persons charged with criminal offenses shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for offenses punishable by imprisonment for life not subject to parole, when the proof is evident or the presumption great.””
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.