In Re Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1980
8 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2. That he is guilty of the commission of an act, though disassociated from his duties to the court or to his clients, which renders him an unfit, unsafe and untrustworthy person to be entrusted with the powers, duties and responsibilities of an attorney and counselor at law, even though the commission of such act be not punishable as a crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““1. That he has ceased to possess that good moral character prerequisite to admission to the practice of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.