Hickman v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1994
2 district · 8 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 Brown v. Russell & Co. · Nichols-Shepard Co. v. Rhoadman · Healy v. . Healy · Babcock v. D. Deford & Co. · Hurless v. Wiley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Cases will be found where the purchaser is given the privilege of returning the property within a certain time if it prove unsatisfactory, but where he makes no agreement that he will pursue that remedy. In such cases it is held that the privilege to return the property is but a cumulative remedy.” (p. 722.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Ragsdale
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.