Hickman v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1953
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 M'Crea v. Purmort · Aull Savings Bank v. Aull's Administrator · Dickson v. Desire's Administrator · Kimball v. Walker · Bobb v. Bobb
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The operative effect of the deed was, of course, to place the grantees in the possession and profits of the land; the evidence admitted was a restriction of this effect of the deed. And having this effect it should not have been admitted. The rule permit-' ting evidence to vary the consideration of a deed is limited to such evidence as is consistent with the operative effect and purpose of the deed. ‘Its legal import can not be varied.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellows v. Porter
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.