Sloan v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1,105 federal appellate · 234 district · 257 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,209 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lockhart v. Fretwell (1993), Rock v. Arkansas (1987)
1,105 federal appellate · 234 district · 257 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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
Cited together with Ford v. Wainwright · McSurely v. McClellan · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Strickland v. Washington
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.