Hicks v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
16 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 United States v. National City Lines, Inc. · Ft. Smith Gas Co. v. Kincannon, Judge · Running v. Southwest Freight Lines, Inc. · Healey & Roth v. Huie · Kornegay v. Auten, Judge, on Exchange
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ... reasoning by the U.S. Supreme Court is faultless: when the legislative branch of the government gives the plaintiff the choice of venues and the plaintiff diligently exercises the choice, then it is not for the courts to invent their own doctrine to overrule the legislative determination. [[Image here]] If we should now permit the doctrine of forum non conveniens to apply to these venue statutes here involved, the effect would be to allow the court to determine the venue rather than the litigant whose process was first served. We would thus be allowing the courts to determine for themselves the matter of venue as between two conflicting counties, rather than allowing the litigants to determine the venue by diligence in filing suit and obtaining process. The Legislature gave the choice of venue to the diligent litigant. The courts should not usurp the legislative power of establishing venue; and such would be the effect of applying the doctrine of forum non con-veniens |Rto these two venue statutes here involved. What we said in Running v. Southwest Frt. Lines, Inc., Ark., 303 S.W.2d 578 , was in regard to an ‘imported’ case: that is, one that arose outside of the State; and our language in that case should not be extended to apply to cases such as those here presented.”
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.