Kennedy v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Scott v. Laws (1919), Swiss Oil Corporation v. Hupp (1934)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Barnsdall v. Bradford Gas Co. · Kincaid v. McGowan · The United States v. Andres Castillero Andres Castillero · Cent. Ky. Nat. Gas Co. v. Stevens
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot refrain from stating here that upon this interesting question counsel for appellants-in their brief have presented neither' argument nor authority, other than their own assertion; and counsel for appellees have not favored us with any brief, which places upon the court, if the question is to be discussed in the opinion in a manner justifying its recognition hereafter as authoritative precedent, a burden of research that ought to be borne or attempted at least by counsel and that interferes materially with out efforts to relieve the congested condition of our docket.””
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.