Hicks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Gardner v. State (1987), Montoya v. State (1987)
44 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 Ramos v. State · Koller v. State · Miller v. State · Anderson v. State · Turner v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Your Honor, we're going to object to that comment. He is obviously commenting inferring by the place he stoodlet the record reflect that he stood right behind the defendant, raised his voice, at that time, and objectedexcuse menot objectedsaid, `We haven't heard from somebody in this court.' At that time, Mr. Casey looked down at the defendant in such that his actions and inferences and comments made, was a comment on not testifying by the defendant."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any defendant in a criminal action shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf therein, but the failure of any defendant to so testify shall not be taken as a circumstance against him, nor shall the same be alluded to or commented on ,by counsel in the cause.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Owen v. State““But there is somebody that we haven’t heard from in this case. And I think you all know who it is.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkerson v. State · Bird v. State
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.