Hicks v. Guinness’s Empirical Analysis
269 U.S. 71 · 1925
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v. Humphrey (1926), Zimmermann v. Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian (1927)
51 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 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 Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Robertson · Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · Chicago St Ry Co v. McCaull-Dinsmore Co · Hopkins v. Lee
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The loss for which the plaintiff is entitled to be indemnified is 'the loss of what the contractor would have had if the contract had been performed'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“You are too late to perform what you promised, and we want the dollars to which we have a right by the law here in force.... The event has come to pass upon which your liability becomes absolute as fixed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“loss for which the plaintiff is entitled to be indemnified ... happens ... when a tort is committed, and the plaintiff's claim is for the amount of that loss valued in money at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.