Hicks v. Sprankle’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2015
22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While not good as a conveyance of the estate by entirety, under recognized rules of construction the conveyance should operate, as nearly as possible, to produce the effect intended by the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Jones“[W]here the intention is uncertain, resort may be had to subordinate rules of construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Surti
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.