Hicks v. Ricardo’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Krishnan v. Sepulveda (1995), Rosenboom MacHine & Tool, Inc. v. MacHala (1999)
2 federal appellate · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 11th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Lofton v. Texas Brine Corp. · Jackson v. Van Winkle · Jones v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · M.J. Sheridan & Son Co. v. Seminole Pipeline Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the same circumstances that produced at least some of the previous mental anguish are likely to recur”
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.