Hicks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State · Eads v. State · Batten v. State · Ex Parte Dowden · Ex Parte Bailey
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the only possible penalty under the circumstances would be life imprisonment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.