Hicklin v. Orbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1994
1 district · 17 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 1601 (Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992)
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all oil and gas leases, easements or right-of-way permits for oil or gas pipeline purposes, unitization agreements, or any renegotiation of any of the preceding to which the state is a party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hicklin v. Orbeck“employment opportunities at refineries and in distribution systems utilizing oil and gas obtained under Alaska leases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hicklin v. Orbeck
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.