United States v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 722 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably In the Interest of L.J. (2013), United States v. Parra (1993)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · United States v. Raddatz
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[djefense counsel, as well as prosecutors, are required to bring alleged errors to the trial court’s attention by making a proper objection or filing a motion. Trial courts are not generally bound to act sua sponte. The burden should not be on the court constantly to compare the evidence at trial with that from the earlier hearing. The parties thus have an incentive to make their objections known at the trial stage where corrections can be made without having to redo the entire proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The amended Application Note 1(a) to § 3E1.1 lists, as an appropriate consideration for the reduction, the truthful admission of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a longstanding social custom that serves functions recognized as valuable by society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.