State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably State v. Johnson (1976), State v. Pokini (1974)
2 federal appellate · 27 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. Naylor · State v. Montgomery · State v. Huett · State v. McGee · State v. Bartlett
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of the evidence including that of the state tends to prove that the [accused] had reasonable cause to apprehend that [the victim] had a design, that is, a purpose or intention to inflict some great personal injury on the [accused]. No other interpretation could be put on the undisputed events of the day before. [The victim] physically assaulted the [accused] on the premises where the [accused] conducted his business and where he had a right to be_ While the [accused’s] physical makeup is not specified, it is clear from the record that he was no match for [the victim] who was described as a ‘giant’ of a man. After the [accused] escaped from the first assault, [the victim] attacked again and the [accused] avoided him only by running from the premises and down the street until [the victim] was intercepted by the police patrol. The [accused’s] apprehension and recognition of his physical inability to protect himself and his desire to avoid [the victim] are indicated by his conduct on the following day.... State v. McGee, 361 Mo. 309 , 234 S.W.2d 587, 591 [6], recognizes the rule that the law of self-defense implies the right of attack when it reasonably appears necessary for protection against an impending assault, but it depends on necessity, real or apparent, and the danger must be imminent or reasonably appear to be so. ... the only material difference in the testimony of the witnesses was with regard to what [the victim] was doing or about to do when he was shot. There w”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. J_ M v. Wallace
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.