Spikes v. Hibbard’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1995
11 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 H. B. Deal & Co. v. Bolding · State Use Arkansas County v. Pollard · Marks v. F. G. Barton Cotton Company
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Even if the complaint failed to state a ground for equitable relief the appellees supplied the defect by asking that their title be quieted. It is a familiar rule that one who has invoked the assistance of equity cannot later, object to that jurisdiction unless the subject matter of the litigation is wholly beyond equitable cognizance. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nottingham v. Knight
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.