State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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

1. “I find, sir, that by virtue of your plea to the sexually oriented offense, you are a sexual predator as defined by the code.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Poole, Unpublished Decision (11-8-2005)

2. “[t]he trial judge's statement demonstrates why we must reverse Hicks's sexual-predator adjudication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Poole, Unpublished Decision (11-8-2005)