State v. Hickling’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1968
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Against unreasonable delay, or the continuance of oppressive prosecutions, defendants can, through methods indicated in Apgar v. Woolston , find protection in indisputable power of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith“where the common law prevails, in which the peremptory power of the court has been exerted upon the state's representative in thus discharging an indictment in whole or in part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith
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.