Hicks v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2011
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Tynan v. United States · Farmer v. Gipson · Bush v. Chenault's · Shaver v. Ellis · Combs v. Thomas. Moore v. Combs, Etc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of equitable estop-pel is applied to transactions in which it would be unconscionable to permit a person to maintain a position which is inconsistent with one in which he has acquiesced. Simpson v. Yocum, 172 Ky. 449 , 189 S.W. 439 ; 19 Am.Jur., Estoppel, sec. 62. A party may be estopped to insist upon a claim or take a position which is inconsistent with an admission or denial of a fact which he has previously made or with a course of conduct in reliance upon which the other party changed his position to his detriment or prejudice. This principle overlaps another. Where one accepts and retains benefits of a transaction or of an instrument which he was not required to take, tan estoppel operates to prevent the party that benefited from questioning the validity of the transaction or basis of it.” (Italics added.)”
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.