Hickey v. Couchman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Operation Rescue-National v. Planned Parenthood of Houston & Southeast Texas, Inc. (1997), Aquila Southwest Pipeline, Inc. v. Harmony Exploration, Inc. (2001)
2 federal appellate · 57 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Garza v. Alviar · Cain v. Bain · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an officer fails or refuses to levy on or sell property subject to execution and the levy or sale could have taken place, the officer and his sureties are liable to the party entitled to receive the money collected on execution for the full amount of the debt, plus interest and costs. The total amount is recoverable on motion of the party filed with the court that issued the writ, following five days’ notice to the officer and his sureties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the jury's finding was against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.