Hickman v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
15 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 Messner v. Messner · State Ex Rel. Girtman v. Ricketson · Bush v. Bush · Davis v. Davis · State ex rel. Bush v. Trahan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The peremptory exception filed by Mrs. Hickman is still pending.... Assuming for the purpose of this suit that the special defense of reconciliation can be urged by means of an exception, an assumption which is most favorable to Mrs. Hickman, then the instant suit must be considered as one which is pending on its merits and in which a special defense has been pleaded.”
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.