Hicks v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Peters v. Hoisington (1949), 29 Tenn. App. 13 - McBroom v. S. E. Greyhound Lines (1945)
24 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such being the plight of the record, the trial judge did not err in holding as a matter of law that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence barring his recovery, ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.