Hicks v. Knost’s Empirical Analysis
178 U.S. 541 · 1900
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 54 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985 · most notably Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co. (1931), Straton v. New (1931)
61 federal appellate · 54 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Hicks v. Knost
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The District Court, has such jurisdiction by tbe consent of the proposed defendant, hut not otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Le Master v. Spencer
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.