Commonwealth v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Parker v. Levy · Moore v. City of East Cleveland
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne to whose conduct a statute clearly applies may not successfully challenge it for vagueness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muhammad v. Com. · Jaynes v. Com.“`clearly proscribed[, it] cannot complain of the vagueness of the law as applied to the conduct of others.'”
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.