Hicks v. Miranda’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
896 federal appellate · 271 district · 324 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,529 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1983), Patterson v. New York (1977)
896 federal appellate · 271 district · 324 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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 Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape · Miller v. California · Steffel v. Thompson · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Mandel v. Bradley
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 2,529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before any proceedings of substance on the merits have taken place in the federal court.”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]scertaining the reach and content of summary actions may itself present issues of real substance.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for want of a substantial federal question.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morrison v. Sadler · Oklahoma Telecasters Association, an Unincorporated Association Combined Communications Corporation of Oklahoma, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Griffin Television, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Ktvy, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Ktul-Tv, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Kotv, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., an Ohio Corporation Golden West Broadcasters of Oklahoma, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Blair Broadcasting of Oklahoma, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Eastern Oklahoma Television Co., Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation Seraphim Corp., an Oklahoma Corporation Koki-Tv, an Oklahoma Partnership and Tulsa Tv 41, a Joint Venture v. Richard A. Crisp, Director, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, Cablecom-General, Inc. Cox Cable of Oklahoma City, Inc. Multimedia Cablevision, Inc. And Sammons Communications, Inc. v. Richard A. Crisp, Director, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
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.