Hicks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 1997
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Vance v. State · Brown v. State · Crymes v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the better charge would not include [the phrase “reasonable and moral certainty,”] we held in Vance v. State, [supra,] that a similar instruction “created no reversible error when ‘considered in the context of the charge as a whole.’ [Cit.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. State
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.