Deen v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Conover v. Montemuro (1972), General Atomic Co. v. Felter (1978)
12 federal appellate · 34 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company v. Deen · Stanley v. United States · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company v. Deen · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Deen
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ssuming as we do that the [court] will of course conform to the disposition we now make, we do not issue the writ of mandamus.”
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.