Hicks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably Cox v. Schweiker (1982), Pair v. Pair (1918)
28 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts will always presume that the legislature uses language appropriate to the expression of the legislative purpose, and therefore [we are] not . . . at liberty to disregard any portion of the language employed by it in the expression of its design .. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to make reparation for the wrong he had done the unfortunate and innocent offspring of his lustful desire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Schweiker“and capable of inheriting from his father,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. James
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.