Hill v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1967
13 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 Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire · Martin v. Martin · Gainus v. Cannon · Stubbs v. Pitts · Smith v. Scott
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will thus be seen that, in the interpretation of this section of the statute of descent, the court recognized it as a partial adoption of common-law principles, and considered it according to the -rules of the common law relating to such succession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chastain v. Larney
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.