Hickman v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably NCP Litigation Trust v. KPMG LLP (2006), State v. Foley (1898)
2 federal appellate · 60 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
Relies on Innerarity v. Merchants' National Bank · Allen v. South Boston Railroad · Jackson v. Hardin · Aull Savings Bank v. Aull's Administrator · Merchants' National Bank v. Lovitt
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the agent is in collusion with a third person to defraud the principal, the latter will not be responsible for the knowledge of the agent in relation to such fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kearns v. Sparks
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.