Hawkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Bland v. State (2000), Williams v. State (2001)
5 federal appellate · 28 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 Jackson v. Denno · Colorado v. Connelly · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma · Soberon v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No evidence of serious physical abuse, that is, gratuitous violence inflicted on the victim beyond the act of killing , is present in this case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district attorney continued, arguing [t]here have been tears in this courtroom. Too many tears by too many people. And it’s time for those tears to stop and the only way those tears are going to stop [is] when those two reach death row. Only then would it stop and as much as I hate putting the burden on you, only you can stop it. The Oklahoma City Police Department ha[s] done an outstanding job. They’ve brought this evidence over here and I reviewed that evidence and I filed this case and [Assistant District Attorney] Barry Albert and I have put it before you and we’ve had the help of San Diego and Sacramento and Seminole and we’ve done everything we can do. You’ve got to do the rest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawkins v. Mullin“did not consider the multiple rapes of the victim while she was held captive in the barn, for the appellant did not commit them, and the record contains no evidence to connect him to them in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gilson 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.