Hicks v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Perez (2009), State v. Davis (1976)
39 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 Abdul v. United States · Bizzell v. Bizzell · 169 Pa. Super. 498 - Hunter v. Hunter · State v. Knight · State v. Walker
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hatever is known by reason of that intimacy should be regarded as knowledge confidentially acquired, and ... neither [spouse] should be allowed to divulge it to the danger or disgrace of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o husband or wife shall be compellable in any event to disclose any confidential communication made by one to the other during their marriage[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where there [was] a completely different factual situation”
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.