Schoene v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1997
7 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 Davis v. White · Neilson & Kittle Canning Co. v. F. G. Lowe & Co. · Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. v. Morris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining th'e question of the existence of a contract, the court will consider the acts, conduct, and statements of the parties as a whole, and if it appears that there was a meeting of minds on all of the essential elements of the contract, and an intention on the part of both parties to enter into a contract upon clear and unequivocal terms, and one of the parties in good faith has acted in reliance upon the alleged contract, the court should construe the facts to constitute a contract rather than to defeat one.””
2 later decisions 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.