Hendricks v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Plantation Key Developers, Inc. v. Colonial Mortgage Co. of Indiana, Inc. (1979), Norris Et Ux. v. Eikenberry (1931)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 County of St. Clair v. Lovingston · Peters v. Bowman · Hitchcolk v. Mortgage Securities Corp. · Harrington v. Rutherford · Ex parte Williams
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party, with knowledge of facts entitling him to rescission of a contract or conveyance, afterward, without fraud or duress, ratifies the same, he has no claim to the relief of cancellation. An express ratification is not required in order thus to defeat his remedy; any acts of recognition of the contract as subsisting or any conduct inconsistent with an intention of avoiding it, have the effect of an election to affirm.”
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.