Healey v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably 189 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Clevenger v. Clevenger (1961), McCabe v. Healy (1902)
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Sharkey v. McDermott · Sutton v. Hayden · Reinders v. Koppelmann · Gupton v. Gupton · 12 N.J. Eq. 142 - Vanduyne v. Vreeland
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This agreement was not merely and solely one to adopt the plaintiff, but was in part to leave the plaintiff the property at their death. The fact that the parties, and each of them, may have failed and neglected to execute it, so far as the adoption was concerned, should not, we think, exonerate them from its further obligation to transfer their property.” (Page 654.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson
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.