718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), 803 So. 2d 598 - Connor v. State (2001)
135 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 United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan v. Leckie Smokeless Coal Co. · Institut Pasteur v. Cambridge Biotech Corp. · 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin v. State · 476 So. 2d 130 - Bertolotti v. State · State v. Owen
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] witness is presumed competent to testify until the contrary is established.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“found numerous nonstatutory mitigating circumstances, including brain damage, mental and emotional disturbance, loss of hearing, disadvantaged and abusive childhood, and lack of education and training,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had poor impulse control even as a child.”
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.