Hicks v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1958
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Hardy v. Russell · Cassady v. Jewell · Campbell v. Mason, Sheriff · Rudulph v. State · Mackey v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘refuses’, like many other words in our language, is elastic and is of somewhat varied signification according to the context in which it is found and the nature of the subject-matter to which it refers. Refusal usually implies a previous demand or request or the existence of circumstances equivalent thereto. But, as stated in Mackey v. U. S. (C.C.A. 6) 290 F. 18 , to ‘refuse’ does not necessarily imply to deny deliberately a previous demand. One of the general definitions of ‘refuse’ is to ‘withhold.’ Webster’s New International Dictionary. The word has been given judicial construction as being a synonym of failure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In case there is no daily or weekly newspaper published in the county, or the proprietor of such newspaper refuses to publish said advertisement, the printed or written handbills posted as herein provided for shall be sufficient.””
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.