Hikel v. Abousy’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2000
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Buffington v. Wood · Buining v. the Transporter · Knighton v. Villian & Fassio e Compagnia Internazionale di Genova Societe Riuniti di Navigazione · Leszynski v. Russ
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no cause to complain of surprise if defendants elect to disprove the case on trial instead of in the conference room”
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.