State Ex Rel. Hicks v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
November 1996
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jordan v. State · James v. Rogers · McCullick v. State · Thomas 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute should be given a construction according to the fair import of its words taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.