Hicks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1988
16 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 Studstill v. State · Hill v. State · Coxwell v. State · Peterson v. State · Thomas 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presentment alleges that the killing was done ‘by choking,’ and also ‘by other means to the jurors unknown.’ It appeared from the evidence introduced in the trial of the case, after the demurrer had been overruled, that the circumstances of the killing would not admit of greater certainty in stating the means employed in committing the offense. It was held in the case of Commonwealth v. Webster, 5 Cush. 295 , that ‘An averment in an indictment for murder that the defendant committed the crime at a place specified, “in some way and manner, and by some means, instruments, and weapons to the jurors unknown,” is sufficient, when the circumstances of the case will not admit of greater certainty in stating the means of death.’ We think, therefore, that the court did not err in overruling the demurrer to the presentment.” .(629.) '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cruse
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.