State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Eason (1991), State v. Hyatt (2002)
2 district · 94 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. McKinney · State v. Gardner · State v. Turner · State v. Effler · State v. Bell
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a child's uncertainty as to the time or particular day the offense charged was committed' shall not be grounds for nonsuit `where there is sufficient evidence that the defendant committed each essential act of the offense.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent a showing that the ruling as to competency could not have been the result of a reasoned decision, the ruling must stand on appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is disqualified to .testify as a witness when the court determines that he is (1) incapable of expressing himself concerning the matter as to be understood, either directly or through interpretation by one who can understand him, or (2) incapable of understanding the duty of a witness to tell the truth.”
4 later decisions 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.