Hickman v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Orsborn v. Deep Rock Oil Corp. (1954), Soza v. Hill (2008)
8 federal appellate · 23 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 Patterson v. English
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our exemption laws should be liberally construed in favor of express exemptions, and should never be restricted in their meaning and effect so as to minimize their operation upon the beneficent objects of the statutes. Without doubt the exemption would generally be resolved in favor of the claimant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Jarboe · In Re Alexander““Our holding is in accord with our public policy as declared in Arts. 3486 and'3487, R.S.1925, that the court shall make an allowance of cash, not to exceed $500, to the widow and children to compensate them for any specific exempt articles not among the effects of the deceased; and no conditions whatever are fixed against their right to this payment. It applies the principle stated in Carson v. McFarland, Tex.Civ.App., 206 S.W.2d 130 , 132 (er. ref.): ‘our exemption laws should be liberally construed in favor of express exemptions, and should never be restricted in their meaning and effect so as to minimize their operation upon the beneficent objects of the statutes. Without doubt the exemption would generally be resolved in favor of the claimant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meritz v. Palmer“did not wear the rings continuously but ‘at times’ pledged them as security for loans and ‘at other times’ had them in a file at home or in his bank box ... [To hold otherwise would allow a debtor to exempt a shirt as clothing only] while on his back but not while reposing in a dresser drawer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Leva
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.