Hickok Producing & Development Co. v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 183 · 1942
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2000
17 federal appellate · 2 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 Owen v. King · Arkansas Natural Gas Co. v. Sartor · Cities Service Co. v. Koeneke · Al Parker Securities Co. v. Owen · John Church Co. v. Martinez
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere ignorance of one’s rights will not toll the statute of limitations. Concealment by defendant only by silence is not enough. He must be guilty of some trick or contrivance tending to exclude suspicion and prevent inquiry.””
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.