Hicks v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Island Recreational Development Corp. v. Republic of Texas Savings Ass'n (1986), Morrow v. Shotwell (1972)
3 federal appellate · 74 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 Williams v. Safety Casualty Co. · Associated Oil Co. v. Hart · Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Price · Mullins v. Sanders · Texas Employers' Ins. v. Herring
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law must be given a practical and reasonable application. Accordingly, the word ‘immediately’ is very generally held to mean with due diligence. The accused has the right to be presented without delay, but the question of what is delay must be determined by all the facts and circumstances. . . . While courts must safeguard the rights of individuals, they should not impose liability ' upon peace officers for delays which are reasonable under all the circumstances.” Hicks v. Matthews, 1954, 153 Tex. 177 , 266 S.W.2d 846 , 849.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Bohac · State v. Byers““It is the rule, where a judgment has been reversed, to remand to the trial court rather than render, where the ends of justice will be better subserved thereby. Such remanding has often been ordered to supply additional testimony, to amend the pleadings, and even to show jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that a peremptory instruction would have been justified does not necessarily mean that the cause should not be remanded to the trial court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.