Hicks v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 18 - Tenzer v. Superscope, Inc. (1985), 124 Cal. App. 2d 229 - Augustine v. Trucco (1954)
48 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 Coward v. Clanton · Zeimer v. Antisell · Shanklin v. Hall · Wheeler v. Farmer · Ropes v. John Rosenfeld's Sons
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The agent, in the hope and belief that he will be able to sell the land at a profit within the time, agrees to and does make certain expenditures upon the land. If he is able to make the sales he will be reimbursed for these expenditures out of the proceeds of the sales. If he fails to make the sales he loses the expenditures which he has made. This is the element of chance which necessarily inheres in a contract of this character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.