Hawkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “she could point to nothing to support her conclusion that an injection of liquid silicone could migrate through the vascular system as quickly as would have been necessary for the silicone injection... to have caused Lawrence's death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sylvester Garner v. State of Mississippi

2. “testified that Lawrence was injected in the subcutaneous tissue in her buttocks, which broke capillaries within the area of the hips and buttocks, and allowed the silicone to travel into the bloodstream.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sylvester Garner v. State of Mississippi

3. “In other words, the silicone essentially clogged the veins and arteries until the heart could not pump blood sufficiently to sustain the body.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sylvester Garner v. State of Mississippi