Hawk v. Berkemer’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 445 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Post (1987), Pandelli v. United States (1980)
17 federal appellate · 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 Santobello v. New York · Green v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Jorn · United States v. Scott
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant is acquitted only when `the ruling of a judge, whatever its label, actually represents a resolution [in the defendant's favor], correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was only conditional on the defendant's guilty plea, a plea the defendant has in effect withdrawn,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fransaw v. Lynaugh“in a case where the accused himself has terminated an inquiry into an element of culpability.”
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.