Acklen's v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently November 1989 · most notably Parsons v. State (1948), Councill v. Mayhew (1911)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Bondurant v. Bank of Alabama
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, however, the witness go further and testify that, at or about the time the memorandum was made, he knew its contents, and knew them to be true, this legalizes and lets in both the testimony of the witness and the memorandum. The two are the equivalent of a present, positive statement of the witness, affirming the truth of the contents of the memorandum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Polytinsky v. Sharpe“"The law recognizes the right of a witness to consult memoranda in aid of his recollection, under two conditions:”
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.