Hicks v. Nunnery’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Ang v. Martin (2005), Heinze v. Bauer (2008)
36 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wilson v. Garcia · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Krahn v. Kinney · 113 Wis. 2d 561 - Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permitting a convicted criminal to pursue a legal malpractice claim without requiring proof of innocence would . . . shock the public conscience, engender disrespect for courts and generally discredit the administration of justice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]ublic policy requires a plaintiff in Hicks's position to prove he is innocent of the charges of which he was convicted in order to prevail on a claim of legal malpractice[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“accepts the findings of the verdict as true but contends that the moving party should have judgment for reasons evident in the record other than those decided by the jury.”
2 later decisions 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.