State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 271 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Garner (1995)
8 federal appellate · 262 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma · State v. Long · United States v. Powell · Lockhart v. McCree
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 271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nconsistent verdicts on different counts of a multi-count indictment do not justify overturning a verdict * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is prejudicial error to refuse a requested charge that is pertinent to the case, states the law correctly, and is not covered by the general charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The issue is whether there was a purpose to kill. Intoxication may reduce one's inhibitions. It may blunt one's appreciation of the long-term consequences of one's acts. It may impair one's judgment, * * *. But purpose is the culpable mental state at issue here — and intoxication, even severe intoxication, can co-exist with purpose.”
2 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.