Hicks v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1981
14 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 Taylor v. . Taylor · Blankenship v. Blankenship · Pharr v. . Pharr · Schlagel v. Schlagel · Becker v. Becker
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time the challenged testimony was offered, plaintiff's action for divorce on the grounds of adultery had been dismissed; therefore, it was not offered `in any action or proceeding for divorce on account of adultery' as forbidden by G.S. § 8-56,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Hicks“a divorce action grounded on adultery was not being tried at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Hicks
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.