Hawkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
15 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 Duckett v. State · Bradley v. State · Ex Parte Calderon · Ex Parte Evans · Price 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if we accept the facts as they are recited in the confession, we cannot agree with the State’s interpretation of the evidence that the offense of robbery was complete when petitioner took the money and the act of standing in the doorway interrupted the transaction so that the murder was a separate assault . the time sequence of events was continuous and did not break the chain of antecedent violence perpetrated upon the complaining witness so as to give rise to the inception of another separate and distinct offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Olson“The common factor has been an uninterrupted and continuous sequence of events or assaultive acts directed toward a single victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Fitch
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.