Hicklin v. Orbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
118 federal appellate · 72 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 495 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Hughes v. Oklahoma (1979), Zobel v. Williams (1982)
118 federal appellate · 72 district · 172 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Toomer v. Witsell · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio · Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · Paul v. Virginia · Sugarman v. Dougall
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 495 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to place the citizens of each State upon the same footing as citizens of other States.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from their common origin in the Fourth Article of the Articles of the Confederation and their shared vision of federalism,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.