State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Ariegwe (2007), State v. Derbyshire (2009)
100 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 State v. Heath · State v. Bailey · State v. Ruiz · State v. Mallak · State v. Flowers
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court's authority in sentencing a criminal defendant is defined and constrained by statute, and the court has no power to impose a sentence in the absence of specific statutory authority.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Essig · State v. Garrymore“imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not . . . more than 100 years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garrymore“A sentence not based on statutory authority is an illegal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. F. Day
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.